Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Romney did challenge Nixon to a debate, which his foe is unlikely to accept. The Michigander also refrained from inundating the state with the traditional gadgetry: only 1,000 bumper stickers have been ordered, along with a few hundred psychedelic posters that show Romney glowing with an inner purple light. Instead, he is depending on a combination of computers and charisma...
First in the Delta. Some captured documents suggest that just such an enemy escalation would accompany any move to the conference table. The U.S. command in Saigon does not interpret what is happening now in that optimistic light. Rather, it thinks that the Red offensive, emphasizing hit-and-run attacks in populated areas, reflects Hanoi's need to refurbish its once awesome image among the Vietnamese peasantry and to regain control of vital coastal areas and rice bowls, such as Binh Dinh province, that growing allied success has denied its troops...
...speaking with characteristic nonchalance about the recently published second volume of his memoirs, The Blast of War, 1939-1945. The P.M. had journeyed to New York for the American publication of the book-and a concurrent honorary degree from Columbia University-but his efforts at self-promotion were light to the point of weightlessness. The whole subject of statesmanlike memoirs, he said, invariably made him think of Arthur Balfour's critique of a Churchill memoir: "Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis.'" As for his own labors, Macmillan is thinking ahead...
...BLADE OF LIGHT by Don Carpenter. 181 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
...General Westmoreland's phrase, there was "light at the end of the tunnel" a few weeks ago, recent events have made the path to peace as tortuous as ever. The State Department's leading exponent of a "hard line" in Asia. Assistant Secretary William P. Bundy, said Hanoi's firm offer was little more than a dangerous propaganda device full of bad intentions. Bundy seemed to feel that Trinh's statement was like an LSD sugar cube--if we grabbed at it, we might blow our cool for good. Bundy's less outspoken boss, Dean Rusk, was not as upset...