Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Teun Koolhaas designed the sets, which were apparently modeled on the Widener-Lamont tunnel before it was painted. Although they box in the three characters nicely, the sets are somewhat sparse...
...captured enemy documents of recent months are even more explicit in revealing the Communist strategy, and give some remarkable insights into the tunnel vision with which Hanoi views the U.S. and the course of the conflict in South Viet Nam. One says that "the time is ripe for implementation of a general uprising to take over powers in South Viet Nam. The masses are ready for action." The reasons: "Deteriorating morale in the U.S., the conflict between American and 'puppet' authorities, the unpopularity of G-xon (Viet Congese for Johnson) and friction between 'doves' and 'hawks...
According to one survey, the five most popular children's shows in 1951 were Crusader Rabbit, Hopalong Cassidy, Wild Bill Hickok, Howdy Doody and Uncle Mistletoe. Last year's top five: Man from U.N.C.L.E., Bewitched, Time Tunnel, Lost in Space and The Green Hornet. The shift is not only a reflection on the state of children's TV but on the industry as a whole. As Child Psychologist Hilde Himmelweit, author of Television and the Child, says: "It seems to me a devastating indictment that while ten-year-olds still pick up some knowledge from television...
...General Westmoreland's phrase, there was "light at the end of the tunnel" a few weeks ago, recent events have made the path to peace as tortuous as ever. The State Department's leading exponent of a "hard line" in Asia. Assistant Secretary William P. Bundy, said Hanoi's firm offer was little more than a dangerous propaganda device full of bad intentions. Bundy seemed to feel that Trinh's statement was like an LSD sugar cube--if we grabbed at it, we might blow our cool for good. Bundy's less outspoken boss, Dean Rusk, was not as upset...
...color coding. On their arrival for the opening hockey game between the Kings and the Philadelphia Flyers, fans holding yellow tickets, for example, found that they parked their cars in a yellow-designated lot. They entered the arena at a yellow gate and passed through a yellow tunnel to the yellow section, where girls wearing yellow mini-togas showed them to their seats-yellow, of course...