Word: shored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...produced at the United Nations, writing off the whole business as a stalemate. Such a stalemate-with the U.S. obviously coming out ahead in the direct cold-war confrontation-seems to suit some Administration officials fine. Cuba remains a Communist beachhead 90 miles off the U.S.'s southern shore. But the U.S. is continuing-and will keep up-its aerial reconnaissance flights; until its demands are met, it need not pledge against an invasion of Cuba. That keeps things open for future action...
Along the eastern shore of Hong Kong last week the waves rolled in with a tragic flotsam: the bodies of 32 refugees from Red China whose overloaded sampan swamped and sank in mirror-calm seas. They were grim evidence of the desperate craving of thousands of Chinese to make their way from the shackled mainland to the glitter of prosperous Hong Kong, whatever the dangers...
Feeding on their desire are dozens of "travel agents" in Portugal's flyspeck colony of Macao, which juts off Red China's southern shore. What the agents offer is a one-way "ticket," at prices of $70 to $125 a head, for the 40-mile voyage from Macao to Hong Kong. The price is steep, but since Hong Kong is already bursting with 1,250,000 refugees and legally admits only 50 more a day, impatient hordes from the mainland are willing to pay dearly to be smuggled into the crown colony aboard crowded, leaky junks...
...silk, in the dank gloom of December, is somehow a good deal more raspberry and more silky than when seen in the golden context of a June day. But even with the inherent glamour that comes with trekking out in storm boots to buy clothes fit for sea and shore, this year's selection has an added bit of zing...
Everybody, it seems, wants a few rules to shore him up in moments of weakness: last spring a third of Radcliffe wanted social rules that would keep them from sinning: this fall it is CRIMSON editors who, presumably having spent too many hours working for the CRIMSON instead of researching their theses, want a rule that will keep them from throwing in the typescript...