Word: intendancy
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Although Nixon describes this as part of "a new policy on the part of the U.S. in assuming the initiative," the main U.S. thrust continues to be toward agreement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union on a solution to the Arab-Israeli impasse. Nixon's men also intend to make bilateral probes of French and British attitudes through their delegations at the U.N. When the four-power talks eventually take place, the U.S. wants to make sure that it does not find itself on the short end of a three-to-one international line-up over the Middle...
Pillboxes on the Walls. Strangely enough, the people of Hué rarely blame the Americans for the damage caused by heavy U.S. firepower. Those willing to talk at all criticize both sides, and ultimately blame the war. Next time, they intend to be better prepared. Hué's citizens are hoarding extra stocks of rice and water, and have built professional-looking bunkers in their backyards, using layers and layers of sandbags. Some 12,000 allied troops and 13,000 civilian self-defense men guard the city-compared with a bare 2,500 troops last Tet. The bridges...
...squirted Malraux in the face with a syringe full of red paint. Cat-quick, Malraux grabbed the weapon and squirted the squirter back. "There are cranks everywhere," he shrugged as the flics took custody of the offender, a Riviera artist named Pierre Pinoncelli. "I don't intend to press charges," said Malraux. "It's just watercolor," cried Pinoncelli as the cops carted him away. "You won't even have to send your coat to the cleaner-just wash...
...doubt the developers intend to mine Mineral King with the same antiseptic efficiency and imaginative salesmanship that they exercised on Disneyland itself. They promise to ban automobiles from the village and advocate a five-level underground garage. From there, visitors would ride a cogwheel train the last mile and a half. The ski valley would have more than two dozen lifts and tramways leading up slopes. Summertime guests would find fewer trees, but there would be good swimming and hiking...
...writing his book on Sophocles or teaching his graduate-school seminar at Johns Hopkins on the Greek dramatist. Just who does Wills think he is? "I'm a classicist who wants to write journalism," he says. "I see nothing odd about that. I didn't intend to go into journalism until the Classics department said either stop moonlighting or lose your tenure. So now I'm a journalist moonlighting at Hopkins...