Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before then, Builder Zingone plans to head-quite literally-for the hills. Pitting pragmatism against civic pride, he is planning a residential center in the Tuscan highlands outside Florence on the theory that "after the floods last fall, Florentines would welcome a place to live safe up in the hills...
...perhaps the Chinese really know how much national pride and Maoist commitment this training has awakened in the young soldiers or officers. Most of the experiences--the steady political education, the "Officers to the Ranks" movement, the "Emulate the PLA" campaign, the abolition of ranks--are devices introduced or reemphasized by Lin Piao since he took over the Defense Ministry in 1960, but Mao almost certainly had a hand in them also...
...Minister at that time, P'eng Tehhuai, complained that the PLA was asked to spend too much time bringing in harvests and building dams. The officers wanted to build a crack modern army and felt too little time was left for military training. China, they thought, should swallow its pride and a little ideology and accept Russian help in building modern weapons stockpiles, including atomic bombs...
Wrong Brownsville. One outside possibility is Tom Johnson, 25. No kin, young Johnson is a quick-minded Georgia newsman whose youth stirs in L.B.J. the kind of paternal pride and protectiveness that he sometimes displayed toward Moyers (and, in a better-forgotten era, toward Bobby Baker). An assistant press secretary, Johnson theoretically ranks below both Press Secretary George Christian, 39, and Deputy Secretary Robert H. Fleming, 55. But in some ways he has grown closer to the President than either. Since December, young Johnson has conducted some major briefings while his nominal superior hovered in the background. Moreover, L.B.J...
...membership to include more classes of people, particularly young new leaders with fresh ideas. "Our struggle with Red China is not just dialectic," insists Ku Cheng-kang, a member of the Kuomintang's 19-man Standing Committee. "Our political system and reforms have shown results, and we take pride in this as a viable alternative to Communism...