Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trusted advisers south-White House Adviser McGeorge Bundy, Under Secretary of State Thomas C. Mann, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Jack Hood Vaughn, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Cyrus R. Vance. The mission, as a White House aide put it, was intended to "accelerate strategy." Officially neutral, the U.S. at first had seemed to lean to Imbert's junta. With the arrival of the Bundy mission, the U.S. started working toward a coalition headed by a onetime Bosch Cabinet member whose main qualification was that he had said he was antiCommunist (see THE HEMISPHERE...
Another enigma surrounding the swiftest knockout ever in a heavyweight title fight was Clay's failure to go to a neutral corner immediately. After the knockdown Clay hovered over Liston and hollered a few vilifications at him. As I've always understood the rule, a fighter must retire to a neutral corner before the countdown begins. If Clay had thought the knockdown were legitimate, he wouldn't have jeopardized his chances for a first-round victory by carrying on a little social chat with his prostrate victim before going to a corner...
Hoffmann's introduction is modest. Aron is not only a columnist; he is the best of the West's myriad political commentators. Reading him, one cannot help feeling he has achieved the optimum mix of compassion and realism. The Great Debate is an example of neutral analysis in the service of compassion. Aron analyzes the nuclear apocalypse before which much of Harvard shudders as millenial Christians before the imminent Judgment, and he deals with it in a calm, utterly convincing...
...likely to attempt to separate politics from economics, to protect her trade relations from the constraints of partisan diplomacy. Japan is expected to continue to press for an independent role in world affairs; she may oppose American policy on many points and may move closer to a policy of neutrality. But non-alignment," says one senior Japanese diplomat. "It has never been accomplished before, the combining of industrially huge power with truly neutral leadership. It will be extremely difficult...
...only means of revolution. Europe bequeathed to Africa and Asia what Dedijer calls a "double legacy"--a hatred of capitalist exploitation and a love for equality and freedom. This double legacy has been fused into the new revolutionary force of socialist movements of national liberation, which will hopefully remain neutral and avoid the excesses of either of the great world blocs...