Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desk commander, the Chief of Staff has made three trips to Viet Nam, plans to return there to share Christmas dinner with men of the 8th Cavalry Regiment, the outfit he commanded in Korea. "What we are doing there," he says, "is fighting an island campaign on a land mass." Last week Johnson boarded his JetStar for a one-day visit to the Army's biggest training center, Fort Jackson, in the piney uplands of South Carolina, where 19,655 men are being taught to fight...
...characters do not become repulsive--but the fault they share does. And Zweig radically alters one character, Volpone's toady Mosca, to further emphasize the central theme of money. As his name suggests, in Johnson's original he is a "fly"--engagingly ingenious and quickwitted, but as unscruplous as the rest. In the course of Zweig's play, however, he turns from his original admiration of Volpone's riches and wiles to disgust at the power of money; having inherited his master's fortune, he chooses in the closing scene of the play to share it with the people...
Such veneration was shrewdly earned. Having negotiated Kuwait's independence from Britain in 1961, Abdullah (with British help), resisted Iraqi threats to occupy his realm, then turned enmity to friendship with a loan. He created a Parliament to share his power and refused to veto its actions even when he disapproved of them. With $700 million a year in oil income, Kuwait became one of the world's major financial powers; its millions on deposit in London are a principal prop for the hard-pressed British pound. While his people enjoyed free education, medical care and telephone service...
...Just sentimental, I guess," Larry O'Brien, 48, said later. The new Postmaster General had received a letter from University of California Senior Delane Roberts, explaining that a birthday package with bedroom slippers, candy and a recording of Come Share My Life had been lost in the mails for eight days on the way to Roberts' girl, Bonnie Bishop, at Utah's Brigham Young University. "If it is not beneath the dignity of your office, sir," pleaded...
Coca-Cola will supply syrup and bottles from Italy; the government will add water, sugar and distribution, and the two will split earnings fifty-fifty, with Coke getting its share in U.S. dollars...