Word: item
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...essentials of U.N. diplomacy remain, as Adlai Stevenson once defined them, "protocol, alcohol and Geritol," the 23rd session will likely provide more than usual amounts of vitriol. Czechoslovakia and Viet Nam offer abundant fuel for debate, even though both are absent from the 99-item agenda. But they are effectively out of the U.N.'s scope. Czechoslovakia's new representative, Zdenek Cernik, spread the word that an Assembly debate would be most unhelpful to Prague, and the Russians, who doubtless dictated Cernik's position, vociferously agreed...
...more playful item, about half a dozen members of the cast do a kind of jungle gavotte. With kangaroo hops, lion growls and peacock flutterings, they imitate and invent animals. Each actor performs feats of remarkable physical agility. Quite possibly, the Living Theater's eventual fame may rest on throwing out Stanislavsky in favor of the R.C.A.F. manual...
Ford added that there was "no new item of income that specifically justified" the $300,000 expenditure. To find the extra money, Ford said he was simply gambling that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences could receive more money than it had originally been budgeted, or that the deficit could be covered through "the normal channels"--such as surpluses from the summer school...
...salary increases of roughly 20% that airline pilots have recently been winning. Air-traffic delays, brought on in large measure by the proliferation of scheduled flights, have cost the airlines some $90 million so far this year. But new aircraft purchases are far and away the most expensive item. Under contract, U.S. airlines will take delivery of 451 new jet planes this year, at a cost of $2.6 billion. In all, they have commitments or options to buy $7.6 billion worth of jets...
...year's subscription. In the first issue last week, a "Combat Exclusive" revealed that hippies had poured a "fortune in LSD into reservoirs" with the hope of turning on the Democratic Convention. But their plans fizzled out, said Combat, when the chlorinated water neutralized the LSD. An item more colorful than correct, since there are no reservoirs in Chicago, and the LSD would have had no effect anyway. Combat also found it significant that Eldridge Cleaver, a Black Panther who is the presidential candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party, was invited to lecture to a group of summer...