Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least of the problems. Indeed, sooner or later, Israel's newly bloated borders may undergo drastic shrinkage by negotiation. There is no great urge, for example, to stay in the empty wastes of the Sinai Desert. And rather than maintain a garrison at Sharm el Sheikh, Israel would prefer to see that distant outpost demilitarized and put under international control...
...airlines-Pan American, TWA, American, Northwest Orient, Continental, United, National and World Airways-have ordered 70 of the big planes. Other orders have come from Lufthansa German Airlines, Japan Air Lines, BOAC, Air France, Alitalia, Irish International Airlines, KLM and Air-India. Most of the carriers prefer a first-and tourist-class seating that allows for 350 to 362 passengers. To Boeing, which had originally planned the 747 as a military transport that would be similar to Lockheed's successful C-5A, this almost negates the whole idea of the nine-abreast economy airliners. To prove the point, Boeing...
Still, the simple dignity of the man and the grandeur of his lonely conquest of the sea managed to survive all the hucksterism. "I have no interest in meeting a better class of person than the friends I already have," said Chichester. "I still much prefer to be appreciated by the connoisseurs." The admirers include Queen Elizabeth II, who will formally confer knighthood on Sir Francis next week in an unusual out-of-palace ceremony at the Royal Naval College at Greenwich. She will use the same sword presented by Elizabeth I to Sir Francis Drake after he brought home...
Just two days before, "Duke" Wayne had celebrated his 60th birthday at the premiere of his 162nd picture, The War Wagon, in Arlington, Texas. Now he was working at Benning without rest through the long Memorial Day weekend to stake out No. 163, The Green Berets. He would prefer to shoot the film in Viet Nam. "But if you start shooting blanks over there," he says, "they might start shooting back." Duke knows. Last year, while touring a Marine encampment for the U.S.O., he heard the crack of Viet Cong snipers' rifles. "They were so far away," sniffs Wayne...
Still, many Negro soldiers prefer to pull their passes in Saigon's self-segregated Soulsville, a warren of bars and brothels along Khanh Hoi Street near...