Word: showings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foray, however, had an unexpected side effect in bringing to a head a feud within the Syrian government. In what amounted to yet another upheaval in Syria, Lieut. General Hafiz Assad, the Defense Minister, posted troops around government ministries and television studios in a show of strength against Chief of State Dr. Noureddine al Atassi and Baathist Party Boss Salah Jaid. If Assad makes his power play stick, one result could well be an end to Syria's quarrels with the rival Baath party in Iraq, and its isolation in the Arab world, which could lead to a more...
...squads has christened itself "the Fulbrights"-complete with red shirts emblazoned with a white dove on the front-and J. William was there to cheer the boys on. After all, he reasoned, "If I got up at 5 a.m. to see the President leave, why shouldn't I show up here...
Enigmatic Features. As Mariner 6 approaches its goal this summer, one of its two television cameras will begin shooting a series of pictures that will show the full disk of the planet six times more clearly than it can be seen through Earth telescopes. While Mariner 6 sweeps over the equatorial regions of Mars, both cameras will shoot a series of 24 closeup pictures programmed to include areas of interest on the red planet: permanent and variable dark markings, "canals" and "oases," white markings on crater rims and other enigmatic features that have been seen through terrestrial telescopes or were...
Where? Officer Candidate Schools could be expanded to take up the slack; in its present form, though, OCS is basically a cram course, and the graduates show it. Only the Marine Corps, which shuns ROTC, is currently satisfied with turning collegians into officers solely at OCS bases and summer camps. For other branches, the service academies would have to be enlarged enormously. West Point, for example, will turn out only 750 second lieutenants this year, v. the 17,000 second lieutenants who will graduate from Army ROTC...
Conspicuous in the show are 13 examples of his Women of 1950-55. These "bitch goddesses" outraged yet captivated the public taste at the time, perhaps because they were essentially familiar, looking nostalgically backward to Picasso's baleful demoiselles and George Grosz's Weimar whores. But looking backward in turn, most critics now find far more significant the abstract compositions that De Kooning executed between 1945 and 1950, before he immortalized his Women...