Word: racing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...between neighbors that had cooled under two previous Administrations. But he also felt compelled to press tactfully for U.S. defensive security both in this hemisphere and in Europe. The President was persuasive in contending that the ABM system's flexibility and slow timetable would not escalate the arms race. Trudeau, speaking to newsmen at the Canadian embassy, held to his early reservations and objected: "I don't think that the general question has been answered, any more than it was a week ago." However, he later conveyed a different message to his House of Commons. Noting that...
...Fleets of Ilyushin bombers pound Chinese airfields, troop concentrations and industrial centers across the entire northeast. China's outnumbered jets are swept from the skies, and within a week the major Manchurian cities of Shenyang and Harbin have fallen to the Soviet pincers. Linking up, the Russian columns race south toward Peking, then halt 50 miles away...
...point in wishing that colleges would simply choose qualified applicants by lottery. As it is, he says, "one is almost ashamed of getting into a good college" because of the salesmanship involved. Whether or not a lottery makes sense, there is a way to rise above the college race. For those with steady nerves, the solution is to do something spectacular-scale Mount McKinley in a wheelchair, perhaps-and then refuse to mention it to the colleges...
...they were dead and dead people rather as if they were alive. He approaches American politics like an alert observer from a foreign-and slightly hostile-country ("American Empire" is one of his favorite phrases). On the subject of sex, he scarcely seems to belong to the human race at all, doing a marvelous impersonation of an anthropologist from Mars on a friendly but clinical visit...
...handful of its members. The doings of these members--who embrace black culture while simultaneously trying to get a grip on the monetary aspects of white culture -- while setting up for a meeting are howlingly funny and true. When the title character, their leader, arrives to answer race-oriented questions, things get a little stagey. The production, which is graced by what may be the best cast in New York, closes Sunday; do not miss it. At the VILLAGE SOUTH THEATRE, 15 Vandam...