Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Intransigent Right. Both men had at least some compelling reasons to try to reach agreement. The economic sanctions, for example, threaten Rhodesia with permanent loss of the British tobacco market. Yet far from softening Rhodesia's stand, as Wilson hoped, the sanctions have only helped create a more intransigent opposition on Smith's right. When Smith emerged victorious over Rhodesia's extreme rightists in a by-election this summer, Wilson evidently decided that he might never have a better chance for compromise...
...appropriate that Tassajara should be almost as difficult to reach as the state of satori. High in the hills of California's rugged Big Sur country, 160 miles south of San Francisco, Tassajara is the site of the nation's first and only Zen Buddhist monastery...
...grow, they have excellent coordination and easily learn good balance on skates and bikes. They want playmates, but treat them so badly that they are soon shunned by the other kids on the block. In school they drive teachers up the walls with their disruptive, destructive behavior. If they reach adolescence without treatment, says Martin, they are candidates for the juvenile courts...
Pour la Patrie. Though bargain rates should put TV within reach of many companies, the number that can exploit the new advertising opportunity is limited by stiff government restrictions. Half the plugs must boost sales of certain food products to help French farmers unload their surpluses. The rest are equally divided between textiles and electric appliances, whose makers have been hurt by foreign competition. For non-French products, the chances of appearing on French TV screens are small. Before letting a commercial go on the air, the government has to be satisfied that its message serves the interests...
...Biafrans' hair from turning blonde (the last stage before death by starvation) by flying in food, principally baby food for the festering mouths of the people. The problem is, McGuire says, that he as an airman can fly the food in, but there is no guarantee that it will reach those who need it. "It goes here, it goes there, it goes everywhere," he says sadly. So he wants to return, go back to Biafra, this time on the ground to supervise distribution of food supplies as a worker for the Red Cross or other charitable agency. "I know...