Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smelling Like a Rose. The Administration argues plausibly that military pressure must be maintained in Viet Nam in order to assure progress at the peace table-although there is room for dispute about this. The question remains whether the right kind of pressure was presented by the battle for Hamburger Hill: a costly fight for a piece of real estate that was to be abandoned before the blood had hardly dried on it. There are U.S. officers who will privately admit that, given hindsight, Ap Bia should have been handled differently. Perhaps, they say, the 101st moved up too close...
...some 70 countries around the world, Communist Party leaders last week brushed up on their Lenin, packed their suitcases, and prepared to be fellow travelers with a single destination: Moscow. The capital's hotels, including the new 3,000-room Rossia, just off Red Square, braced for the greatest onslaught of comradely dignitaries in nearly a decade. Barring a last-minute snag, the oft-postponed world summit meeting of Communist parties will convene this week in the Soviet capital, the first such international gathering of top party brass since...
...hotel room may not be the best place to keep a little girl on a holiday, but Kyoko Ono, 5, daughter of Artist Yoko Ono, is delighted with the idea. She breezed into Montreal with her parents after her father, Beatle John Lennon, was refused entry into the United States because of a recent marijuana conviction in London. While the elder Lennons were spending ten days in bed as a "lie-in for peace," Kyoko put on a show of her own-hopping periodically from the bed, Teddy bear firmly in hand, grabbing handfuls of rose petals and throwing them...
From now on, said Freddy, the gang has got to be run professionally. No more missing deadlines. No more late press runs requiring air shipments of magazines. No more scheduling a lot of articles there would not be room for. No more 10? a word for articles. Nickel a word is tops. And back to a monthly schedule...
...going to approach you now," said Psychiatrist Augustus F. Kinzel to his subject, who stood eight feet away at the center of a bare room. "Tell me to stop when you think I'm too close." He moved forward a pace. "Here?" Another step. "Here?" The subject, an inmate of the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Mo., and a man with a long history of violence, shook his head. But as Kinzel continued his advance, the prisoner's hands clenched into fists and he backed off, like someone gearing for attack. It was almost...