Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been suffering from their own where-do-we-go-from-here problems. The system of collective leadership practiced since Khrushchev's removal in 1964?what State Department Policy Planner Zbigniew Brzezinski calls a "regime of clerks"?has resulted in a slow-motion foreign policy that inhibits innovation or quick decision even more effectively than Washington's dinosauric bureaucracy. Moscow's inability to get itself out of its self-dug holes, no matter how dangerous they become, is a price the Kremlin is paying for ending Khrushchev-style "adventurism...
...Asian war has yielded scant prospect of benefit for Moscow either. Kosygin and Communist Boss Leonid Brezhnev, reversing Khrushchev's policy of noninvolvement in Southeast Asia, began aiding Hanoi early in 1965, when a Viet Cong victory seemed imminent. Large-scale U.S. intervention thwarted their hopes of a quick, cheap victory and exposed Russia to the charge that it will retreat from its involvement in any war of national liberation if the stakes get too high...
Gibes & Outrage. The response to such diatribes was as quick as it was predictable. In leftist Algeria, where France has a big stake in oil production, the semiofficial newspaper lauded De Gaulle's "customary lucidity," his "striking lesson of wisdom and political courage." L'Humanité, the French Communist daily, praised the President's stand. And the official French radio network ecstatically reported that "all eyes" in New York had suddenly swiveled toward Paris...
...ludicrous sight of a disappointed politician trying to talk himself into a position of prominence only made material for cartoonists' gibes. Everyone was quick to recall how France had continued to supply arms to Israel right up to the moment that fighting began-and perhaps well after. And even as President De Gaulle decried world tensions, his high-pressure salesmen were doing their best to contribute to another arms buildup-this one in Latin America of all places-by trying to sell their newest antitank missiles and supersonic jets to Peru...
...Alfred H. Barr Jr. After months of negotiations, the museum landed 100 works by 54 20th century painters and sculptors from the private collection of New York Dealer Sidney Janis, 70, a Buffalo-born former shirt manufacturer who began collecting contemporary art in the late '20s, opened his quick-stepping, publicity-prone Manhattan gallery in 1948. The collection, valued at upwards of $2,000,000, has everything from Picasso and a $50,000 Mondrian, which Janis bought from the artist in the '30s for $70, to sculptures of Janis himself by Pop Dollmaker Marisol and Plaster-Caster George...