Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...molds) outside Canberra, the President turned up in full Western rancher's regalia-brown twill trousers, brown shirt, brown tie, brown jacket with brown leather presidential seal, cowboy boots and tan Stetson. The 750 guests, dressed in business suits and garden-party dresses, were slightly jarred by the sight...
...heads of state and Foreign Ministers of the six other nations attending the conference. The Philippine capital had a bright, brushed-and-combed look for his arrival: most of the potholes on main avenues had been filled; the pimps, prostitutes and "bini boys" (homosexuals) had been hustled out of sight; Malacañang Palace had been refurbished; and the aging Manila Hotel, where the delegations are holed up, got its first fumigation in memory...
...chronicle of this confusion is familiar: while Ambassador Goldberg proposes that the United States would de-escalate if the North Vietnamese would do likewise, Secretary McNamara announces a significant increase in air armaments; while the President pleads for peace, the troop increases continue with no end in sight; and, most serious of all, while this country professes a desire to come to the conference table, the President tactlessly declares that the United States will never unilaterally halt the bombings of the North--thus damaging, in one brief, blunt moment the preconditions needed for negotiations...
...Youth League, the organization designed to prepare 15-and 25-year-olds for Party membership, was next on the cleaning list. The League's director, Hu Yueh-pang, dropped out of sight while Mao looked around for a new youth organization. The story goes that the Chairman heard of some young people in a provincial high school who had organized themselves to study Mao's thought and demonstrate against bourgeois shop owners, Buddhists, and others slow to convert to Maoist ideology. Mao, it is said, was delighted with this spontaneous activity, gave it his blessing, and the Red Guards were...
...Ford Motor Co., the McCall Corp. and the Menninger Foundation. Art Collector Murphy is also on the board of the National Gallery of Art. With all this activity, there are bound to be some student murmurs about absenteeism in the front office, but the chancellor is such a familiar sight on campus that his customary outfit of blue blazer and grey flannel slacks is known as "the Murphy uniform." Murphy seldom misses a U.C.L.A. football game, often leaves his seat on the 50-yard line to pace nervously behind the bench when his team is in trouble...