Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Immediately after boarding the ship, Virginia sent a bottle of Moselle to Bing's cabin with a note saying that she was ready to begin at his convenience. Within 20 minutes, he called her to say: "Miss Page, I would have sung without the wine." Bing himself set up the schedule: two hours in the morning, two more in the afternoon, and further talks at cocktails every evening. But after filling six large notebooks, she gave him-and herself-one day off. Virginia found him an "ideal" person to interview: "I believe he is the wittiest man I have...
...sons in total commitment to South Viet Nam on an errand of mercy, although we face the retaliation of armed Communism in our own land," he said. Eying Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright who sat-on his hands -a few rows away, he said: "We note a hesitancy, some frustration and doubts in America" about...
...most of it melting before he got there but the remainder providing a cool profit. Then one day he failed to show up, and troopers found his creaky, decrepit truck leaking ice water on Highway 19. The truck and its owner were riddled with Viet Cong bullets, and a note near the body read: "Do not take the dirty money of the Americans." Now an ice plant is being built to ease the heat...
Fast Footwork. S.E.T. is fraught with paradoxes. Its numerous critics note, among other things, that candy floss makers are given the tax break provided for manufacturers, but export agents, who contribute directly to Britain's earnings abroad, are taxed as service types. The whole tourist industry, Britain's fourth largest foreign-exchange earner, will be penalized as a service enterprise...
...necessary to master an art to become successful at it. There are celebrated singers who cannot hold a note and artists who cannot grasp the essentials of form and color. Then there is Allen Drury, who happens to be a bestselling novelist without much talent for writing. But Drury has a special gift-a reportorial eye and ear for detail and atmosphere, an expertise about political power, and a seasoned newsman's disdain for cant...