Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scanning a moving blip on the screen that indicated an airliner, Japanese defense command radar operators on the northernmost tip of Hokkaido Island radioed a warning. "You are off course," chided the Japanese. "Turn south." But the message was lost amid crackling static, and Seaboard World Airlines Flight 25 3 A was already 80 nautical miles north of its course. Moments lat er, Pilot Joseph Tosolini was radioing that intercepting MIG fighters were forcing him to land on Iturup, one of the Soviet Kurile Islands. For Tosolini, 214 U.S. servicemen bound for Viet Nam aboard Flight 253A and the crew...
High-blown Jumble. Nor does Humphrey appear likely to change his campaign style. "It is a proud thing to be an American," Humphrey said in Philadelphia, but the pride was somehow lost in a jumble of high-blown rhetoric. With frequent references to the Depression, the Vice President, who styles himself a "man of tomorrow," comes out in favor of liberty, peace, justice, free expression, knowledge, public accountability, meaningful work, open opportunity, public compassion, movement and free association, privacy, rest and recreation and patriotism-everything but the "politics of joy," a theme now absent from Humphrey's oratory...
...What makes this a matter of concern to the G.O.P. is the latest Gallup estimate that regular Republicans now constitute a scant 27% of the U.S. electorate, while Democrats claim 46% and independents 27%. Nevertheless, Nixon can point to considerable coattail strength of his own. Even though he narrowly lost the race for the presidency in 1960, the G.O.P. was able to register a net gain of 21 seats in the House and two in the Senate when he was at the head of the ticket...
...France, the Gaullists last week won 294 seats in the 487-seat Assembly. De Gaulle's party thus became the first in nearly 100 years to win an outright majority in that chamber. His major leftist rivals, the Communists and the Federation of the Democratic Socialist Left, lost more than half of the seats that they had held in the outgoing Assembly, ended up with a combined total of only 90 votes. Though many of the Gaullists were almost indecently gleeful about their victory, Premier Georges Pompidou was restrained. "The first of our duties is not to abuse this...
...television set, and a lot of people own houses and can afford vacations, the rich don't live so very differently from the middle class. Don't you believe it. Still, being very, very rich is not quite as much fun as it used to be. We've gradually lost the old exuberance of my parents' day. No more marble palaces or French chateaux imported stone by stone; no more parties reminiscent of the triumphal march in Aida. Instead of encouraging the peasantry to goggle enviously through our iron fences or line the roadside as we take...