Word: petted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle's pet summit projects were just as unenthusiastically received by his colleagues. As one of his chief ploys, De Gaulle planned to challenge Khrushchev to cooperate with the West in a joint program of economic aid to underdeveloped nations. Both the U.S. and Britain feel that this would pervert and weaken Western aid programs. And De Gaulle's dream of a ban on arms shipments to such troubled areas as Africa is frowned on by the U.S., which argues that proud new nations will insist on getting defensive armaments somewhere-and it might as well be from...
...bushy-browed, dynamic Leonid Brezhnev, 53. Like Kozlov and Kosygin, Brezhnev belongs to the new generation of Soviet men, reared among machines rather than revolution, trained in industry, agriculture and politics. He got his start working under Khrushchev in the Ukraine, moved to Kazakhstan to launch Khrushchev's pet "virgin lands" scheme, and only this year made his first trip beyond the Iron Curtain to speak at a Finnish Communist Party Congress. Since he still is a top Party Secretary, Brezhnev may fill the hitherto largely ceremonial office of President with greater power and authority...
...keep the veterans running, a special breed of geriatric mechanics has grown up in Latin America. They prowl every big city's junkyards (Santiago has ten sprawling "dismounting parks"), searching with a collector's eye for hard-to-find spark adjusters and planetary gears for their pet patients. Last week José Quiroz stood in the doorway of his Santiago garage and watched a 1930 Essex roll up. "There are no more made," he said, "but it's always possible to do a little something for the survivors." One handy Santiago cabbie took an iron...
...pharaoh, Don Fabrizio is surrounded by his possessions, from powdered footmen to Murano chandeliers, from silver soup tureens to gold-flecked frescoes. When a soldier of the risorgimento turns up in Don Fabrizio's garden to remind him of the passions of the dispossessed, the prince gives his pet great Dane some conservative advice ("One never achieves anything by going bang! bang!'') and retreats to his telescope to contemplate the snobbish quietude of the stars...
Asked about President Eisenhower's December decision never to spend U.S. foreign aid funds for birth-control programs abroad, Nixon agreed that U.S. funds should not be used to promote birth control - or any other pet notions abroad...