Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. Well deserving of its Oscar, the best foreign film of the year owes much of its impact to Josef Króner and Ida Kamińska as a couple of harmless villagers who have to work out their own answers to the Jewish question-orrather, the Nazi question-in German-occupied Czechoslovakia...
...landing had been spotted and that a search party was being organized. Then an SH-3 helicopter homed in on the pilot's voiced directions from his pocket radio and scooped him to safety. No other American has been rescued so close to North Viet Nam's main population center. Four and a half hours after takeoff, Adams-fondly nicknamed "Bulb" because of his prematurely receding hairline-was back aboard the Oriskany. Squadron 162 greeted him with pistols raised in mock salute-and two ounces of Napoleon brandy. To Minneapolis, Adams wired: "Would you believe...
Sure enough. He was no more than 20 steps inside the main entrance of GUM, the Soviet Union's largest department store, when his eyes fixed on the deep decolletages of two young sales girls. There, hanging from their necks, were glittering gold crosses. No, they said, they were not Catholics, but faithful Komsomols (Young Communists...
...author finds Johnson "a hard man to measure, an enigma, a mass of contradictions." He is "titanic and petty, courtly and crude, an authentic political genius and a cornball." With all that, "more than most men, his performance must be looked at in the main." What comes through almost reluctantly in this often critical book is that in the foreign policy areas that really count, L.B.J. has in the main acted with courage and good judgment...
...Bargaining. Johnson has steered between these two poles, and his main purpose in Viet Nam, says Geyelin, has always been "to pursue settlement by improving his bargaining position." Then the author raises-but leaves un answered-some doubting questions. Has the policy of improving the bargaining position by "fiercer war" missed "opportunities for negotiated settlement"? Has U.S. involvement become "unnecessarily deep"? Geyelin charges that L.B.J. in foreign policy has radiated no "moral leadership...