Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quiet Americans. No one knows for certain why Hanoi has taken the offensive in Laos. North Vietnamese taken prisoner seldom seem to know what their overall aim is in Laos, though they make good propaganda exhibits to rally villagers against the Communists. The best guess is that the Laos offensive is all part of General Giap's wider offensive in South Viet...
...very unsettling for the quiet, fastidious musician, who rises by 5 a.m. every day to begin working at an upright piano in his suburban Paris apartment. The son of a Marseille postal inspector, he learned piano and violin from his father, entered the Marseille Conservatory at ten, and soon seemed headed for the life of a concert pianist. Instead, he veered off into a jazz career at 17, eventually became interested in the wider instrumental palette and richer sonorities of pop arranging. Established though he was in the profession, he remained a blank to the public, since French disk jockeys...
...moille is the lesser-known, quiet, cozy sister of the other two. Originally a private house that was converted into a 115-room hotel just before World War I, its deeply faithful clientele includes discreet European aristocrats, U.S. fashion buyers and greats of the international music world...
...running, which is to say able to reap the reward if the President falters. If, on the other hand, Kennedy achieves no better than 35 per cent, as against, say, 40 per cent for LBJ and 25 per cent for McCarthy, he will have died a quiet death and be remembered, if at all, as "that other Kennedy...
Otto Eckstein recently predicted that all the money saved from ending the Vietnam war will be channelled right back into the military budget instead of being used for social spending. Now David Rockefeller may put some quiet pressure to bear on the President to prevent this happening but by himself he can achieve nothing...