Word: visione
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Asbestos is handled somewhat differently. Before sanctions were ordered by the U.N., the British company of Turner & Newall, which produces most of Rhodesia's asbestos, had a vision of things to come. So it prepared for future problems by setting up a South African subsidiary called Southern Asbestos. Although the mineral still moves straight from Rhodesian mines to a Mozambique port without ever going through South Africa, the company simply supplies each shipment with a South African certificate of origin. Outgoing chrome is usually labeled South African as well and is bought in large quantities by the Japanese...
...quelles belles grosses cuisses!" he exclaimed. ("What beautiful big thighs!") Laurens, of course, was not merely defending Marlene: he was defending his own conception of sex and soul, a lifelong vision of woman as a beauteous, bursting form. She had entered his hands an inhibited Victorian lady and emerged a delightfully sensuous modern. She was a siren, Dawn, Night, a symbol of all nature's most mysterious forces. Now, in a sweeping retrospective at Paris' Grand Palais com posed of 110 bronzes, plus terra cottas and drawings - all part of a grand gift from the sculptor...
...Atlanta, white Socioeconomist Dr. Robert Theobald told concerned and dispirited delegates to the convention of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference that "the civil rights movement is dying because it no longer has a vision to inspire its members, let alone the rest of the country...
Viet Nam is for men with double vision. There has never been a war quite like it. Tt is two kinds of combat against a two-faced enemy, and the combination is deadly. One fight pits the U.S. and its allies against North Vietnamese and main-force Viet Cong regular soldiers whose primary mission is as old as war itself: to kill and maim the opposing armies. The second fight is waged by a second enemy, the clandestine Viet Cong guerrilla. His uniform is the peasant's black pajamas, and his mission is a Communist innovation: to steal people...
...last week, will set a new record this year (one result being lower grain prices on the nation's commodities market). With the average farm laborer producing enough food and fiber for 39 people, the American farmer not only overfeeds and overclothes the U.S. but holds out the vision that expanding technology can eliminate the threat of famine in underdeveloped lands as well...