Word: normal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...normal times, Peking's flagrant behavior would have been cause for an instant break in diplomatic ties. But these days nothing is normal in China -vulgar displays of xenophobia are balanced against the value of having a man on the spot, a diplomatic observer who can help keep track of the anarchy raging inside the Communist giant. Thus the Russians have put up with having the wives and children of their Peking diplomats forced to crawl under portraits of Mao. Italy last week was enduring the truculence of the skipper of a Chinese freighter in Genoa bent on converting...
Coming Freeze. At the request of Alaska's Governor Walter Hickel, who shuttled in by air-the only transportation left-President Johnson declared Alaska a major disaster area and allocated $1,000,000 in federal funds to aid the region, which under normal circumstances would take more than a year to rebuild. Alaskans will have to do the job in six weeks. By Oct. 1 at the latest, winter's first freeze will come. Unless Fairbanks is dried out by then, the city could become a massive ice patch, its roads, water pipes and building foundations ripped apart...
...doctors kept the woman patient on the balloon pump for seven hours, during which her color improved and her skin became warm and dry. Then they removed the balloon. Since then, her heart has performed adequately on its own. Further recovery has been as normal as that of other heart attack victims, and last week, six weeks after the operation, her doctors were considering a date to send her home...
Everything seemed normal when Test Pilot David W. Howe eased the LA4 "Lake" amphibian toward Niagara Falls International Airport earlier this month. So he radioed a highly abnormal report to the tower: "Bag down and inflated." Seconds later he landed-without wheels-on a cushion...
Agriculture, in normal times, is the basic economic occupation of a majority of the citizens of Vietnam and in the renewal of Vietnam's status as a food producer and exporter lies important potential for the nation's future. The goals of these new programs should, therefore, be national in scope and should be aimed at the realization of the enormous potential of the Mekong Delta...