Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That was bleak news, and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, once again the dominant spokesman for the nation's Governors, refused to accept it. He changed the subject from the peace dividend to what is known as the "growth dividend," resulting from the normal expansion of the U.S. economy. Rockefeller reported that a study commissioned by the Governors Conference Committee on Human Resources, which he headed, had produced some interesting figures. Never mind whether any money comes from the slowdown in Viet Nam; the study projected that federal revenues would increase by $15 billion in 1970, $16 billion...
Another American, former Marine Lieutenant Charles Fenn (now a novelist writing in Ireland), had helped Ho set up the intelligence operation and occasionally corresponded with him. In one letter, previously unpublished, Ho wrote to Fenn: "The war is won. But we small and subject countries have no share, or very very small share, in the victory of freedom and democracy. Probably if we want to get a sufficient share, we have still to fight." He was right, of course. Ho and his Viet Minh colleagues approached the French as the Pacific war was ending and asked for a measure...
...publishers of Däniken's book deleted his references to the extraterrestrial origins of Christianity, but a Soviet scholar has attacked the subject head-on According to an angry Izvestia editorial, Philologist Vyacheslav Zaitsev of the Byelorussian Academy of Sciences has not only proposed the theory that Christ was a cosmonaut but also that the star of Bethlehem was his rocket A being from a higher civilization ("My Kingdom is not of this world"), Christ came to bring advanced social ideas of love, charity and democracy to a slave-society world. He was immune to the human death...
...portrait of St. John Chrysostomos shows how Nubian artists employed subtle shading not only for the sake of naturalism but also to heighten mood. A Madonna and Child dating from around 710 differs from many earlier extant treatments of the subject in that it shows Christ as a baby and not a diminutive adult...
...morning tea in their Düsseldorf apartment, she looks outside, hoping to see the kind of lead-gray overcast for which Germany's Ruhr Valley is noted. Becher's concern with the weather is not a matter of whim. He is a photographer, his subject the collieries, mills, water towers and other rugged structures of Europe's coal and steel industries. Only a dull diffused light, he has found, can properly set off the austere, utilitarian designs produced by the Industrial Revolution long before Bauhaus theoreticians made a cult of functionalism...