Word: ink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because of Ho's goatee." After two months of hirsute haggling, Ho suddenly agreed to a modus vivendi: the Chinese would leave Viet Nam, but there would be no independence. France promised only to explore the possibilities. That was hardly what Ho wanted, and no sooner was the ink dry on the agreement than Giap's army took to the hills to begin the eight-year guerrilla war that culminated with Dienbienphu and the complete exhaustion of the French will to resist. In 1954, with the signing of the Geneva Accords, North Viet Nam became...
...impossible task: putting a friendlier face on the Internal Revenue Service. At first L. & M. will simplify the tax forms, rewrite the IRS's standard letters and redesign its office signs-but after that, almost anything can happen. Turned free, L. & M. might design a new shade of ink for tax bills (Affluence Green? Bankrupt Red?), or tell the IRS to change its name to something like Friendly Funding...
...course, are meant primarily as competitive features to attract the people who fly (three-quarters of whom are businessmen) to a specific airline, but they also serve-along with lower fares-to draw the first-time passenger. Eastern Air Lines attributes its remarkable comeback from clouds of red ink to its use of additional passenger services. American now puts out a pamphlet for the nervous, "Tips on Making Your First Air Trip." Since Western began cutting prices three years ago, 5% to 10% of its new passengers have been people who have never flown before. Since the younger generation have...
...Revolution. At the penultimate performance, an outfit called Le Groupe Panique smashed a huge plaster reproduction of Rodin's Thinker into smithereens, spilling torrents of black ink out of plastic bags. Then, while a girl twisted the arms, legs and heads from plastic dolls, another girl stood by beatifically as a grave-faced artist shaved her groin. Later, Beat Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti intoned his latest work while a naked couple made love vertically in a burlap bag, black light playing on their shoulders. "I should stop it," moaned Director Davis, "but if I do, there will be 28 times...
...course, they've already got one. He's the guy that made that last-minute appeal for funds which kept Dean Burch out of the red ink. He used to do TV spots and speaking engagements for right-wing outfits like General Electric and the AMA. You remember, Ronald Reagan, the actor...