Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sparrow also scoffs at the idea that a gunman could have fired from an exposed position and "got clean away in full view of the public." It was Oswald alone, he concludes, who killed the President. As for the demonologists, Sparrow marks them thus: ^ Joachim Joesten (Oswald: Assassin or Fall Guy): "Mr. Joesten's story (that there were two conspiracies, one to kill the President, the other to kill Governor John B. Connally of Texas) is extravagant and incredible, his book a compound of bad English, bad temper and bad taste...
...embassy in Saigon now believes that the best way out of the war would be through direct negotiations between the South Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker has been quietly promoting the idea, but President Thieu resists,1 arguing that his own generals would get up in arms against him if he were to dare recognize the Viet Cong. Thieu last week was drafting a letter to Ho, proposing to meet him face to face. In the unlikely event that Ho accepts, Thieu will ask the U.S. to stop bombing for seven days and to continue...
Britain's economic plight and its failure to make any headway with the Common Market constituted such a mess, said maverick right-wing Tory Duncan Sandys, that the country needed "a coalition of ideas" of both parties-an oblique appeal for a national government, as in World War II. The idea got few takers. Despite the hard knocks he has received lately, Harold Wilson is not yet ready to admit defeat. As for the Tories, they are not that eager to help bail Wilson out of the mess...
Taking an increasingly bigger role in the business, Godtfred soon got the idea of producing a line of construction toys that figured to appeal to girls as well as boys; he devised gaily colored plastic blocks to fit the bill, and production began on them in 1952. Once the blocks caught on, children naturally needed more and more sets to expand their construction possibilities -and the business grew apace. By 1960 (the elder Christiansen died in 1958), the product was doing so well that Lego dropped its production of wooden toys...
...devoted so much of his life to drinking up his talent, Dylan Thomas had a remarkably methodical approach to that talent when he was putting it to work. In his tight, clear script he filled notebook after notebook with the history of his poems-when the idea was first set down, how long he sat on it, how he cleaned up the various versions, what he chose to publish and what he left out. Such matters may seem too arcane for all except literary note-pickers, but for those who remember Thomas as a presence and his Collected Poems...