Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swing through Asia next week, President Nixon will skip Singapore, domain of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. The omission is dictated by an understandably tight schedule, but it will deprive the President of some pertinent impressions. Lee, a Cambridge-educated pragmatist, has to a large degree succeeded in creating the sort of independent and self-assured nation that Nixon hopes will develop throughout the Far East. In the past decade, he has turned the island nation of 2,000,000 into Asia's second most affluent country. Though Singapore's population contains the Malay-Chinese mix that...
...would like to believe that you can discern your interests dispassionately so as not to have the pendulum swing away from Asia because of your rather tiresome experiences in Viet Nam. I accept the world as I find it. One thing I find is the disillusionment of the American people against the losses they have sustained. But what is not underlined so much is that you have prevented the Communists from taking over...
...International Monetary Fund is expected to appoint a committee to study the many peg plans. IMF Executive Director Pierre-Paul Schweitzer has invited official discussion of the peg and a companion plan for greater exchange-rate flexibility, the "wider band." Under this plan, currencies would be allowed to swing 2% to 3% above or below their official parity. A wider band would give the crawling peg more room in which to crawl, and would lessen the frequency with which central banks have to intervene in world money markets to support or hold down a currency's price...
...Moscow? The stopover in Bucharest may ultimately prove even more significant than the Asian swing. Rumania is a leading maverick in the Russians' European orbit. Nixon's visit, Washington believes, will symbolize the fact that the U.S. does not accept the "Brezhnev Doctrine," put forth by Moscow after the invasion of Czechoslovakia to justify Soviet intervention in any independent Communist state within its sphere...
...literate older brother, irreverently sabotages the ultra-patriotic camp newspaper by inventing a comic-strip character known as "the Nippon Pimpernel." Against an otherworldly background of Screenland magazines, Baby Ruth candy bars, and zoot suiters jitterbugging to the music of "the Jive Bombers, the true Mi-kados of swing," camp life is not all camp. The prisoners are soon polarized into two groups. On the one hand are the Super Japanese, paying homage to the Emperor and extolling Yamato da-mashii, the Japanese fighting spirit. On the other are Super Americans, holding war-bond rallies and combat-volunteer recruitment drives...