Word: incidentals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In Saigon, a U.S. embassy aide pointed out that "since Colonel Nam worked with the I.C.C. since its founding, this can be considered an affront to the commission itself." One I.C.C. member confessed his "distress" over the incident, then asked plaintively: "But what can we do about it? We have...
France breeds intellectuals the way Australia breeds tennis players-and follows their careers with almost equal attention. "The French tend to think of the Russian Revolution as a step in the intellectual development of André Gide," cracked British Historian D. W. Brogan recently, "and of the Chinese Revolution as...
But the West was leaning over backwards to avoid an incident that would risk passengers' lives or give the Reds an excuse to start trouble. Then one day last week, two West German jet fighters, flying back to their West German base from NATO maneuvers in France, turned up...
On Camera. The West German government hastily apologized to Russia, but the Communist press seemed determined to exploit the error for all it was worth. "Espionage!" sputtered the East German news agency. But, curiously, East German Boss Walter Ulbricht made little of the incident when he went on television for...
Statements about national characteristics are always dangerous but always tempting. As the Irish genius is essentially in the voice, as the French is in beautiful logic and logical beauty, so the Russian genius wings straight for the remotest caverns of the soul. At his best, Leskov tells his stories simply...