Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Teacher's Pet. Giving up the soft life of a Moscow student, with its "party spouses" and anticapitalist polemics, Ho set out for China under the name of Nguyen Ai Quoc (roughly, "Smith the Patriot"), as agitator and translator for Stalin's agent Mikhail Borodin. Their mission: to penetrate the Kuomintang and train Communist can bo (cadres) to infiltrate French Indo-China. At Canton's Whampoa Military Academy, Ho demonstrated his skills as a disciplinarian. Any student-agitator who failed to show sufficient diligence was promptly betrayed to the French when he infiltrated Viet Nam. Most...
...recommending some oil, airline and insurance stocks, which have sold off more sharply than the market as a whole and have low price-earnings ratios. They also favor some issues in industries that seem likely to expand whatever happens to the U.S. economy, such as aerospace, chemicals, drugs, food, soft drinks, brewing and photography...
...Twelve miles east of Southampton is East Hampton. In both Hamptons the ocean influences everything. Its pounding surf has created an unbroken beach of pure, soft, white sand. Moisture from the ocean causes a heavy dew at night so that golf courses rarely need water on their fairways. In general, the Hamptons are as rigidly socially conscious as Newport, and when snobbery has reared its gelid head it has sometimes been intensified by the rivalry between the two communities. For years, Southampton claimed a social edge. It had tighter restrictions on who could buy property in the community...
...STAR SPECIAL (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). "It's What's Happening, Baby," a top-talent rock 'n' roll show with Disk Jockey "Murray the K." soft-selling economic opportunities to the nation's high school dropouts and jobless teenagers. Time and talent are being donated free by the network, the singers...
...bath and a soft bed, a husband's casual words of praise after dinner...