Word: moths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contemporary Communism [Nov. 10]. However, the total effect may lead your readers to believe that the Soviet Union is a diminishing threat to the security of the U.S. This is not so; the abandonment of the cocoon of the Marxist mystique of historical inevitability exposes only the giant moth of Russian nationalistic aggression-cunningly Stalinist. This contention is substantiated by a report in your NATION section. The identical "liberalized" Soviets who now espouse Libermanism and plan to triple their output of autos have secretly developed the Fractional Orbital Bombing System designed to thwart U.S. nuclear defenses. We cannot afford...
Like a giant moth attempting to break out of a cocoon, Soviet Communism is trying to rid itself of a doctrine conceived a century ago in a far different world. Though Lenin had to revise Marx to fit the Russian pattern, it was Nikita Khrushchev who launched the official decline of the doctrine. Faced with the necessity of solving countless economic and social problems, today's Soviet planners find such Marxist theories as class revolution and "the dictatorship of the proletariat" just plain nuisances. The Chinese are right, of course: the Russians are revisionists. In a very real sense...
Hundreds of boats sounded a salute, and dock cranes dipped in tribute as Sir Francis Chichester, waylaid the past month by a duodenal ulcer, at last sailed Gipsy Moth IV up the Thames to the Royal Naval College at Greenwich, where he was formally knighted by Queen Elizabeth with Sir Francis Drake's sword. Later, the solo circumnavigator rode a white Rolls-Royce convertible through London's financial district to the cheers of 250,000 fellow Britons. "You personify the spirit of initiative, adventure and determination," London's Lord Mayor told Chichester at the official city reception...
Released just in time to capitalize on the headlines resulting from Sir Francis' 28,500-mile odyssey in Gipsy Moth IV, this little book may be mistaken at first glance for an account of the 65-year-old mariner's adventures. Actually, it is a sketchy, jerry-built anthology of sea tales by others who sailed at least some portion of the great clipper way followed by Skipper Chichester on his 226-day voyage. Since the book contains extracts from the best known yarns of such seafaring types as Sir Francis Drake, Joseph Conrad and Richard Henry Dana...
...next week in an unusual out-of-palace ceremony at the Royal Naval College at Greenwich. She will use the same sword presented by Elizabeth I to Sir Francis Drake after he brought home a plundered treasure from the Spanish Main nearly four centuries ago. Chichester's Gipsy Moth IV did not bring back such a glistening cargo; a more modern type of loot awaited her intrepid skipper on shore...