Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Talk, Talk, Talk." Moving west, however, Barry found audiences more to his liking. In San Antonio, Texas, Republicans enthusiastically welcomed their favorite, and Barry responded with a hard-hitting blast at a Kennedy Administration foreign policy that "stands wall-eyed in Berlin and cross-eyed in Paris and blind in Cuba." The Administration policy, he cried, "responds like a high-strung puppy to any mention of colonialism but shies like a frightened colt from the real problems of development in underdeveloped lands. Such nations are free in name only. And the present response to their problems has been a response...
...that bucolic 45-mile-long valley, 83 families live peacefully in humble cabins and fine log homes. Hunting rifles adorn their walls and fishing rods and boots occupy the corners of the rooms. In cabin after cabin, there is a color picture of the President of the United States. Yes, sir, says one oldtimer gesturing to a photo on the wall, "he was a great man, that Franklin D. Roosevelt." And over in the Dirty Shame Saloon, Grocery Store and Gas Station, Proprietor "Buster" Bray, formerly of San Francisco, says: "I wouldn't trade any of this for Third...
...Messages. In West Berlin, where he was made an honorary citizen although the welcoming crowds were notably thin, he argued that if grain sales to Russia were justifiable on humanitarian grounds, the West should exact a humanitarian price: demolition of the Berlin Wall. He also jolted his hosts with the remark that he might yet re-enter politics, "if I am asked to do so." As Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt put it, no one could really believe that Konrad Adenauer would become a political teetotaler...
Other papers sent reporters with fresh eyes. The Wall Street Journal dispatched Igor Oganesoff and Norm Sklarewitz; John Cowles's Minneapolis Tribune sent Robert Hewett. Conniff and the rest of the Hearst task force set out for the Far East. So did Columnist Joe Alsop, a talented reporter and longtime Asian expert. Alsop characterized the Saigon correspondents as "young crusaders." He wasted no time reminding his readers that "it is easy enough to paint a dark, indignant picture without departing from the facts, if you ignore the majority of Americans who admire the Vietnamese as fighters and seek...
Some of the improvements petitioned for were a larger and lower desk ("this one is too high to type comfortably"), a pull-out shelf for a typewriter, doors for the closet, a low bureau, doors between the two single rooms, a pegboard wall, more lighting, no fluorescent lights, shelves over the desk, and molding from which to hang pictures. A few girls suggested that instead of two large bedrooms there be two small bedrooms and a large living room, but most people did not comment on the room...