Word: swirls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dolomites, when Mr. and Mrs. Bing embarked on the France at Le Havre for the trip home, Music Researcher Virginia Page was also on board. Bing had agreed in advance to some leisurely seaborne interviews since there would be little time once he plunged back into the swirl of work awaiting him at Lincoln Center...
...little over two years ago, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser convened the Arab world's first summit conference in Cairo, and managed to build a façade of "Arab Unity" against the common Israeli enemy. In a swirl of fellowship and flowing robes, Arab Kings and Presidents embraced as brothers, organized the Palestine Liberation Organization, set up a joint Arab military command, and created a committee to plan the diversion of Jordan River headwaters flowing into Israel's Sea of Galilee. The façade has been crumbling almost ever since, and last week with...
...something." On the tour, Nancy and Cliff spend all their spare time together, hew to strict training rules: up at 9 a.m., in bed by 11 p.m. Nancy has not had a date in eight months, and Cliff has abstained since January-but neither seems to miss the social swirl. "People tell us that tennis isn't everything," explains Cliff, "but to us it is. These people who try to influence us aren't happy themselves, and they're trying to push us away from the deep happiness we've found in the game...
Insect Sauce. Collegium and King together preside over a land that, for all its advantages, is not without problems. By far the most troublesome region is the northeast, along the porous Mekong River frontier with Laos. There, nearly a third of the kingdom's subjects live in a swirl of powdery red dust. Ethnically and linguistically more closely related to the Lao than the central Thai, the northeasterners scratch out a subsistence living from the cracked earth, supplementing their diets of rice and rotten fish with such regional delicacies as eels, ant eggs, fried cicadas and fresh cucumbers served...
From Nakhon Phanom and two other Thai bases, helicopters swirl off to recover pilots downed over North Viet Nam. U.S. radar sweeps the horizon from Mukdahan and Ubon, and a giant new radar and communications complex is abuilding at the northern boom city of Chiang Mai. A large new military airstrip is under construction at Khon Kaen, and two strips are being readied to handle anything up to giant B-52 bombers. Not long ago, a 130-man U.S. Army Special Forces team quietly moved from Okinawa to set up headquarters at Lop Buri. If it ever comes to widening...