Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Guarded Optimism. Then the Council adjourned for behind-the-scenes political jockeying masterminded by Secretary-General U Thant. What seemed to be emerging was a projected international peacekeeping force, under the U.N. umbrella but with a British command...
...This," cried Jimmy Hoffa, "is one of the finest contracts ever negotiated in the U.S." For Teamster Boss Hoffa, it was also the fulfillment of a long-held dream: to bring Teamster locals under the umbrella of a single national agreement with truckers...
...surprise attack a year ago, India's traditional policy of neutrality has been more honored in words than in deeds. While mounting the old homilies about nonalignment, India has petitioned the West for $1.5 billion in military aid and has agreed to a Western air-defense umbrella. Last week the U.S. Seventh Fleet prepared to take up positions in the Indian Ocean...
...While the used-elephant market has been seriously depressed by automation, a mahout-maintained model with buck et seat, two-tone umbrella and stick shift costs up to $1,500 f.o.b. Bangkok, or about $4,000 delivered at the Bronx Zoo. In Thailand, a U-Ride-It elephant is still a bargain at $2.50 a day (one-tenth as much as a rented truck), and is still hard to beat when it comes to bird watching, spraying treetops or hauling logs. But it is impossible to find pachyderm parking space in Bangkok. Shrugs a taxicab mahout: "Elephant too much fighting...
...Since candidates were restricted to three posters each (v. the previous limit of 12,000), many "accidentally" dropped cards, complete with picture and slogan, in telephone booths, department stores, bars and buses. On rainy days, one aspirant even had his campaign workers approach commuters and hand out armloads of umbrellas; when they were opened, the candidate's name spread out in huge characters painted on the umbrella surface...