Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...during those two years, we have suffered too many hangovers of our own. Some political, some not, and lately, a good many of them just plain old alcoholic. You almost begin to admire the simple tenacity that permits one to survive twenty-five years. So what if the Class of '44, with their station wagons, unmentioned divorces, second wives and four kids, are said, along with their other Harvard brothers, to rule the world. When you see them up close, you know they can't possibly be the guys who are really in charge...
...noon of the first day of hearings, it was publicly plain that the bill had no chance in committee, much less in the House. Of the 25 committee members, only four-all Republicans-spoke in favor of it. One of them, New York's Barber Conable, was so persuasive that Connally suggested that he should be the chief spokesman for the bill. No one disagreed. Connally was not in this instance playing his usual role of supersalesman. Mills was overheard saying: "His heart was not in it." When Tennessee Democrat Richard Fulton ended his questioning, he told the Secretary...
...hand on her forehead, saying, "He comes about up to here." Cavett: "How often?" Cavett's summary of the Laotian invasion, during a discussion with TV Newsman Edwin Newman: "We're not widening the war, we're merely narrowing Asia." Then there are times when Cavett is just plain flummoxed. Not long ago, Guest Rock Hudson walked onstage, confessed amiably that he was a boring conversationalist and then proceeded to prove it. At one point, Cavett desperately started a sprightly game of twenty questions, but Rock couldn't get the hang...
...horror of life outside of the enclaves of American power is almost too great to believe. One woman wrote of her pre-refugee life in the Plain of Lars, a strategic valley in Northern Laos which was formerly littered with huge stone cisterns thought to be ancient funeral urns. It is now a deserted wasteland. She reported: "Every day and every night the planes came to drop bombs on us. We lived in boles in order to protect our lives . . . . Thusly, I saw the life of the population and the dead people on account of thewar with many airplanes...
...didn't he told me, "It means Lao People and that is what they are. Just Lao People." He reached in his pocket and pulled out a piece of paper money used by the Pathet Lao. I had never seen one before. On it was a scene of the Plain of Jars: Lao gunners were shooting bazcokas at American planes flying overhead. The remains of several shot down planes were strewn across the background...