Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is method in Sihanouk's behavior. Even his enemies concede that he is a sincere patriot, obsessed by the desire to keep Cambodia independent. The closer the U.S. draws to his old enemies, the Vietnamese and the Thais, the more he feels he must swing to the other side in order to balance matters. He is probably serious when he says he does not really want the victory of Communism in Southeast Asia, because Cambodian independence depends on the continuing, balanced enmity between Communism and the West. Says he: "The day all Viet Nam is reunited under...
...dozen of sacred cows involved in this scandal-they should be herded out in a roundup of honesty." Cheers and applause were thunderous. Even better: the $100-a-plate dinner netted nearly $400,000 for the Goldwater campaign treasury. > Governor Rockefeller returned to New York from his California swing-and probably wished that he had stayed away longer. The state assembly in Albany turned down a pet Rockefeller plan to provide $165 million in new state funds for public housing. What made the defeat even more chilling was the fact that Rocky's own Republican majority in the assembly...
...sorrowful mood. They can't help it. They are spectacles of the past, like circuses or dirigibles, and no matter how good they are, their fans usually go home reminiscing about how great they used to be. The big bands began to slip with the death of swing in the early '40s; they grew even more obscure during rock 'n' roll's heyday...
...says, is that a good band doesn't have to be dull. To prove it, he likes to leap up on a drum and stomp with both feet. His band is by far the least disciplined in jazz, and as a result his sidemen feel free to swing privately. Sometimes the players seem to be digging their own private scene, but on a good night they stir up a roomful of creative excitement. Hamp's arrangements are the raunchiest in the business, but when the band plays Flyin' Home, its audience seems content to forget all that...
...Hair. Chemical companies will cash in on the steady swing to plastic toys by selling upwards of $330 million worth of such plastics as polyethylene, polystyrene and vinyl. Another $120 million will go to papermakers for cartons, paper dolls and business forms. Steelmen will get $60 million worth of business, textile spinners $50 million, and the remaining $40 million will be disbursed among producers of everything from lumber and zinc to musical movements and tiny electrical motors. In 1964 the makers of construction materials and machine tools will also reap big benefits from the toymakers. Planning big increases in their...