Word: swats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Abiding Impact. Still to come were many, many things: a moonlight stroll through the parks of the Taj Mahal, lunch at the lovely Lake Palace in Udaipur, a visit to the burning ghats of Benares. Then, this week, on to Pakistan, supper with the Wali of Swat, a drive up to the fabled Khyber Pass...
...light of those precedents, the Kennedy-Johnson marriage did not seem so astonishing after all. Thus, as in most instances of sock-and-swat Democratic brawls, the bright sun of unity shone down on the happy pair as they hopped onto their steamroller and gaily left town for their honeymoon...
...Colonel Nguyen Van Bong, drove last week along a highway north of Saigon. His car was riddled and set afire by a fusillade from a Communist ambush. Each month, from 250 to 300 government officials and supporters are brutally murdered by Red guerrillas. "It's like trying to swat mosquitoes," grumbled a soldier. "While you're hitting one, you're being bitten by another...
Sultans of Swat. In Istanbul, Turkey, during an all-out effort to rid the city of flies, the Municipal Health Department directed its entire staff to spend their lunch hour killing the insects, required each to turn in a casualty report...
...Humorist Ring Lardner's four sons, war correspondent, sports columnist for Newsweek, television and occasional drama critic for The New Yorker, essayist and satirist (It Beats Working, Strong Cigars and Lovely Women), who published his first work-a poem on Jack Dempsey and Babe Ruth (" . . . both sultans of swat; one hits where other people are, the other where they're not")-when he was eleven, in Columnist Franklin P. Adams' "Conning Tower"; of a heart attack, while writing about F.P.A.'s death (see PRESS) ; in Manhattan...