Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most important contribution was not money but unconventional and imaginative ideas, notwithstanding failures. If the new "mechanism" can steer between a too specific, outdated cold war orientation, on the one hand, and an aimless benevolence on the other, it has a truly exciting chance not merely to provide shelter for the orphans but to modify the entire pattern of America's self-projection in the world...
...sharp kick in the U.S.'s diplomatic shins: De Gaulle summarily threw the NATO command out of France. But it is a gesture that is, among other things, an expression of Europe's new and proper self-confidence. This new independence has only become possible under the shelter of U.S.-Russian detente. The relaxation operates on the other side as well. More and more, the satellite nations of Eastern Europe are asserting their independence of Moscow and reaching out toward their old neighbors in the West-and the U.S. is doing its best to encourage them...
Riding south with a wagonload of symbolic refugees from reality, the tough Hombre wards off a bandit attack led by Richard Boone. But Boone manages to kidnap an Indian-hating lady (Barbara Rush) and rustle the horses, leaving Newman to lead the little band to shelter. The band, it turns out, consists of soloists who cannot harmonize: a malleable Mexican driver (Martin Balsam) who has settled for permanent second-string status; Rush's husband, a corrupt Government agent Fredric March); a pair of bickering teenagers; and a wry-and-ginger redhead (Diane Cilento) who wouldn't mind becoming...
...Edwards was caught by surprise last September when CBS paid some $19 million for the stock held by his biggest (10.8%) shareholders, Texas Entrepreneurs Clint and John Murchison. Upset at the time, Edwards since has warmed to the idea of CBS's rich (1966 sales: $815 million) corporate shelter...
...their drive, the Americans destroyed Viet Cong camps, food supplies and enough concrete bunkers to shelter a division, discovered such incidental supplies as 8,200 pairs of Ho Chi Minh sandals, more than 40 tons of rice and two smokeless kitchens complete with a table set with fresh flowers and a bottle of Russian liqueur. In the first two days of the assault, however, they succeeded in killing only 19 Viet Cong. Later, as their horseshoe-shaped net tightened, a few more Viet Cong began showing up. In a series of firefights, the Viet Cong death toll had risen...