Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have learned a lot," said Minnesota Democratic Senator Walter Mondale. "We learned how to work together, and they are going to hear more from us in the future." It sounded like postgame, locker-room bitterness. But the stakes were high-the $20 billion defense-appropriations bill for weapons and research-and last week, Mondale and other Defense Department critics were losers as the bill swept the Senate by an 81-5 vote...
...Moscow report and reports put out by China. The Moscow sources said, for example, that when Chou met with Kosygin in Peking on Sept. 11, he was accompanied by Lin and Chen. They even noted that Lin, who has suffered from tuberculosis for many years, had to leave the room twice because of coughing seizures. But the Chinese had announced that Chou's companions during the Kosygin meeting were Vice Premiers Li Hsien-nien and Hsieh Fushih. Why would Peking have troubled to disguise the presence of Lin and Chen-unless it feared that their presence might have tipped...
...much promise that the current session would be more dynamic or productive than its predecessors. President Nixon, in his first appearance before the General Assembly, emphasized that U.S. steps toward peace in Viet Nam, including the bombing halt and troop withdrawals, have been "responsive to views expressed in this room." Accordingly, he asked delegates of all nations to turn their "best diplomatic efforts" to persuading Hanoi to make a few concessions too. The delegates, apparently disappointed that the President had failed to unveil new plans for peace in his speech, applauded perfunctorily and did not accord him the standing ovation...
Four-channel stereo at first suggests mainly gimmicky possibilities-tap dancers banging their way across the living room and out into the kitchen; Valkyries swooping about the house like big-bosomed mosquitoes. Yet it has serious potential in recording. Certain kinds of music can be adequately heard no other way: the Berlioz Requiem, for instance, with its four brass bands in opposite corners, or the antiphonal music of Gabrieli...
...only men who used to carry hand bags were medieval couriers, New Guinea natives, mailmen, doctors, photographers and Truman Capote. These days, with trousers slim and pocketless and Ed wardian jackets cut to hold no more than the wearer, men are finding it ever more difficult to make room for even a credit card. Billfolds, eyeglasses and loose change? Forget them. Unless, of course, a fellow could get away with carrying a handbag...