Word: laide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city in the world is quite like Brasilia, the seven-year-old vision of tomorrow carved out of the wilderness. Its unfinished cathedral is designed in the shape of a gigantic crown of concrete thorns. Its Congress building looks like a huge cup and saucer. Its population areas are laid out in Orwellian modules, with all the foreign-ministry officials living here, the bank employees there, the military officers over there. Artificially created to open up the frontier and shift the country's balance westward, Brasilia was long considered the "mad city" that Ku-bitschek built, was shunned...
...also claimed that Heikki had told him that the Young Republicans had agreed to sponsor the Sing-Out, and YD members knew at the time that no such decision was made. The Young Dems said they would not sponsor MRA without the YR's in on it too. Dalton laid down more stipulations, about publicity and about songs. MRA was not to say that the YD's "invited" them to Harvard. He felt that Heikki would turn the Dems down with all the strings attached, but he didn...
Calm Determination. The President laid emphasis on the political stability -frail as it is-that U.S. diplomacy has encouraged in South Viet Nam over the past two years. "As I am talking to you here," he said, "a freely elected constituent assembly in Saigon is wrestling with the last details of a new constitution." Appropriately, Ky planned to take a copy of the new constitution with him to Guam for the President's perusal (see THE WORLD...
...until she gently asked them to wait till the cycles were over. After that, Leontyne traveled to Atlanta to sing to a packed house in the Municipal Auditorium with the Atlanta Symphony. Shouts of "Bravo!" and "More, more!" followed each of her three encores. At the end, the orchestra laid down its instruments and joined in cheering fortissimo...
While Germany is faltering, Britain's auto industry is marking time after passing through the worst phase of the government's deflationary policies. Companies are even talking of rehiring laid-off autoworkers. But last year's exports slumped to the lowest level since 1961, and car registrations were off 12% in the first two months of this year. In its first-half report for fiscal 1967, due shortly, giant B.M.C. is expected to show sharply reduced profits...