Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poker-faced object of these salutations, China's Premier Chou Enlai, 65, arrived by chartered KLM plane for an eight-day visit to Pakistan, a nation of 100 million people that was once solidly pro-Western and is still a member of both CENTO and SEATO, which were set up for the purpose of containing Communism. Yet since 1962, Pakistan and Red China have 1) settled their border problems, 2) signed a trade agreement, and 3) made an air treaty under which Pakistan International Airlines will begin flights to Canton and Shanghai this summer, with reciprocal rights for Chinese...
...classic bullfighting, in which the object is grace as well as guts, but it electrifies the crowds...
Russia seems wholly oblivious to esthetics. There is hardly an object in Russia, from the worn, chipped steps of Moscow's newest department store to the tasseled Victorian lampshades in an Aeroflot jet, that looks as if it had never really been new. Walls and floors often bulge as if there were gophers in the woodwork; many new buildings are girdled with safety nets to protect passers-by from cascading bricks and plaster. From its pockmarked paneling, cracking plaster and flaking paint, Moscow's eight-year-old Ukraine Hotel looks almost as if it had been built...
...world could be, or will be, or was, or should have been," he says. "It is a statement of what is, an art that will show who and what we really are and what we really thought long after we are all gone, because it holds up in one object or one surface, in one bright, luminous and concentrated thing-whether a beer can or a flag-all the dispersed elements that go to make up our lives...
Weaver and his companion, Edward Hollender of Baltimore, were accused of threatening to harm a Negro woman's six-year-old child if she continued to work in a Canton store which was the object of a SNCC-organized boyott. The incident allegedly took place Feb. 4, and the pair were arrested...