Word: token
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Double Eagle and White Wing failed to make contact with the four Communist regiments operating in Binh Dinh, the 1st Air Cav scored a notable coup last week. Its men captured Viet Cong Lieut. Colonel Dong Doan, who obligingly led them straight to a regimental headquarters defended by a token force. The 1st Air Cav took it in fierce hand-to-hand fighting, killing 150 of its garrison. And only 60 miles south of Cu Chi, South Vietnamese troops of the 9th Division killed 175 Viet Cong in their continuing sweep in the Delta...
...scrawled a final command on a writing pad: "Carry on in the most enlightened way." And indeed, his brother and successor, Sabah as Salem as Sabah, 51, has been behaving most luminously. First he ordered a $140 bonus for all government employees in the rich little oil kingdom-a token that set the royal treasury back by $13 million. Then he decided his own pay was a bit much, had the National Assembly cut his salary from $28 million to $22.4 million per annum, with the difference to go to "general-welfare causes...
...dose of vaccine through the skin of a child's arm so fast that he could hardly feel it. Smaller centers used conventional hypodermic needles. The vaccine, Pitman-Moore's attenuated, live-virus form (TIME, Feb. 19), was free, but parents, who were asked to drop a token quarter into a donation box, contributed $8,256.68, or 26? a shot...
Many Americans suspect that they are descended from European royalty and often hire genealogists to prove it. By the same token, many Europeans are convinced that they have a relative who emigrated to America and became a millionaire. A few are right. The rest provide employment for lawyers, archivists and private detectives-especially in France, where the search for several legacies has gone on for generations. None of them is more fabulous than that of Jean-Pierre Mallet, who, so the story goes, died childless in 1818 in Winooski, Vt., leaving behind properties that stretched from the shores of Lake...
Under these circumstances, if the United States was to retain its image as a peace-minded nation, Johnson had no choice but to suspend the bombing. For this reason, the suspension may appear to be a token gesture. But Johnson has gone beyond conventional diplomatic channels and created a radically new kind of diplomacy whose high potential for effectiveness lends strong credence to the President's sincerity...