Word: ideality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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American Response. Such drawbacks are unlikely to deter the Soviet Union from placing increasing emphasis on seapower. Moscow not only relishes the new global reach that Admiral Gorsh-kov's navy has finally brought it, but it also views as an ideal opportunity the chance to capitalize on the U.S.'s preoccupation with Viet Nam and Britain's hasty withdrawal from East of Suez, seeking to impose its own presence where Western influence is diminishing...
...South Vietnamese and Montagnard irregulars and 24 Green Berets, operating out of a deeply dug bunker made of three feet of rein forced concrete and two-inch steel plate, complete with its own ventilation system. As much as any place can be in Viet Nam, it seemed an ideal outpost, immune to artillery attack and so situated that ground troops would form a carpet of corpses if they dared attack up its hillside...
...editor of the nondenominational Christian Herald from 1927 to 1966, Poling had an ideal forum for his views, and he made the monthly one of the nation's most persuasive organs of Protestant opinion. Even after he retired two years ago, Poling stayed active as head of the Christian Herald Charities, which operates the 83-year-old Bowery Mission. Playwright Robert Sherwood once said of Poling that "the whole United States is his parish." It might better have been said, the whole world...
...rival structure to the HPC has been shakily taking shape in the last two months. It is called the Harvard Education Project and plans to make a sweeping study--perhaps taking as long as two years--to determine how closely Harvard approximates an ideal University and what should be changed here. Norr says that he first understood that the project would be "a temporary super-committee of the HPC," but it now seems more likely that those running the project, activists by disposition, will want to issue policy papers recommending reforms themselves...
...coat cost? "Oh, maybe $20,000," said Liebes. Adds Alexander Ehrlich of Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman, who was commissioned by Alaska to produce a sample, full-length cape to stimulate interest, went on to buy 30 pelts: "With all the couturiers looking for something new, this is the ideal time to introduce this fur. Now it's up to the women." And perhaps to the men as well. Ed Shepherd, in charge of Alaska's sea-otter trade, recalls that the fur was once lavished on masculine apparel, says: "I wouldn't be at all surprised...