Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been born in the U.S. instead of in Ha Dong province, on the outskirts of Hanoi, Xuan Thuy, 55, most probably would have become a corporate executive-if never a board chairman. As a youthful agitator and underground journalist and later as a diplomat, jowly Xuan Thuy (pronounced Swan Twee) earned the trust of Viet Nam's Communist chieftains. Even during a three-year eclipse from public view before last month when he was named minister without portfolio to head Hanoi's negotiating team, Thuy retained a resonant string of official titles, notably as a member...
...advice to kids around the country is not to come here. There must be hippie havens other than San Francisco." But flower beds are scarce all over. New York City's East Village scene now seems as loveless as that in the Haight. As Los Angeles' underground newspaper Open City declared: "Hippies are dead-the whole thing went out to lunch...
...Italian Actor Vittorio Gassman. "La Dolce Vita's dead," explained Gassman, "so I called it the 'California Roman Party' to honor the foreigners in town." From the sound of it, La Dolce Vita is alive and well in Rome. Partygoers boogalooed through the night, watched underground flicks, forked in vats of pasta, and things didn't wind up until next morning when the fathers at the next-door theological seminary complained that the racket was disturbing their Sunday services...
...last week, the AEC tested a one-megaton hydrogen device, the largest ever exploded in the U.S. Despite earlier protests from scientists, labor leaders and Howard Hughes, who had feared earthquakes, major property damage and vented radiation, the blast produced only a harmless ground shock and a rock-filled underground cavity similar to that created by the AEC's Project Gas-buggy (TIME...
...nearly blind, Gomulka had sufficient strength in the Polish Sejm (Parliament) to have the post filled by a trusted lieutenant, Defense Minister Marian Spychalski, 62. The political fortunes of Spychalski, an architect by training, have waned and gained for 25 years with those of Gomulka. An underground Communist leader during World War II, he was arrested, imprisoned and tortured by Stalinists after Gomulka was purged in 1948. Never brought to trial, Spychalski left prison a cripple without toes, was made Defense Minister after Gomulka gained power in 1956, and has held the post since...