Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turned out to be far less an educational forum than a platform for intra-academy cattiness and pointless caterwauling. Anti-Administration speakers showed a woeful lack of accurate information and a disturbing tendency to use only the facts that proved their case for reduction or total abolition of the U.S. involvement in Asia. The star performer-and chief advocate for the Administration-was to have been McGeorge Bundy, the President's No. 1 White House aide on foreign affairs. At the last minute. Bundy sent his regrets, saying only that he could not attend because of "other duties...
Harold Wilson's Labor government last week published its long-awaited blueprint for nationalizing Britain's steel industry, the fifth largest in the world. Though steel nationalization is the most controversial plank in the Socialists' platform, Wilson's White Paper was tough, uncompromising - and expensive...
...seems to have been a bit fixed," commented British Captain Ron Crayden as Chuang stepped up to the awards platform-world champion for the third time in a row. Rumor had it that a poster of Chuang shaking hands with Mao Tse-tung was already up in Peking...
...delegates at hand spent much of their time untangling their motorcades, found themselves protected by such rigorous security measures that it was almost impossible to confer privately even with each other. Although Sukarno got off three rip-roaring attacks on imperialists and their "nonaligned" lackeys, he denied the platform to all but seven of his guests-and then ordered the suppression of an Algerian speech defending the U.N. Thailand's Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman flew home early and a bored Egyptian diplomat shrugged, "This Bandung thing is only to appease Sukarno's immense...
...rules. Actress Biggs touches the nitty-gritty core of teen-age ambivalence when she half proudly, half sorrowfully apologizes to her beau for passing a final exam: "I got 75. I'm sorry, I had pressure from my parents. I had to." Later, squatting on a deserted subway platform late at night to strum and hum folksongs, the two embrace all of a troubled generation's inchoate longings in one full, quiet moment. At such moments Nobody Waved Good-Bye conquers its simple ideas and tangled verbiage with cool cinematic assurance, turning a problem play into a poem...