Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final as it seemed. Then, with no one else to talk peace to except Saigon and Washington, the mission came up with a new approach: why not meet directly with the Viet Cong? The notion certainly appealed to Laborite Wilson's troublesome left wing, but as a diplomatic stroke it was less than inspired. The Viet Cong is not a government, and does not even claim to be. To dignify the Communist guerrillas thus would seriously undercut Washington's insistence that it will only discuss peace with the Viet Cong's masters in Hanoi. At week...
...with lotus plants, who won worldwide notice in 1952 when he succeeded in making a 2,000-year-old seed blossom into a beautiful pink flower and nursed the plant back to such health that it is still alive in a Kemigawa botanical garden dedicated to him; of a stroke; in Tokyo...
Died. Dr. Martin Buber, 87, renowned Jewish philosopher, theologian and poet; of uremia followed by a stroke; in Jerusalem (see RELIGION...
...practice, they row 6 to 10 miles a day, smoothly and powerfully shifting the stroke from 20 to 32 beats per minute; each man fitting himself to his boatmates. They may look like metronomes, but Coach Parker calls it "talent." "They are always thinking and feeling what's going on," he says, "rather than being out there just slugging away...
...comedy more than two hours long, some of the sight gags, chase sequences and romantic interludes add more weight than wit; and an aged running joke about German militarism threatens at moments to send the show into a nosedive. But the day is nearly always saved by an inspired stroke of slapstick, a device wielded with mighty effect by Gert Frobe as Germany's Colonel von Holstein. Frobe faces his French foe (Jean-Pierre Cassel) in a mad duel fought with blunderbusses from a pair of balloons bobbing above a drainage pond. The major casualty is Sordi, whose test...