Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British European Airways counter in London that because of more convenient flight times he would have to fly Air France. But then, after thinking through the whole story of De Gaulle's act and its consequences as he wrote his report, he cama to a second-wave conclusion shared by other TIME correspondents working on the story...
...Like Ants." On the twelfth day, the three men reached the treacherous "black board"-a 230-ft.-high cliff of solid slate almost impervious to drills and pitons. "They look like ants crawling up a building," reported one pilot. "But they wave and seem all right." Cautiously, the climbers eased their way through the "great cathedral"-a double-faced outcropping of rock. At last, after 16 days of suspended existence, Siegert reported: "We feel solid ground beneath our soles." He was on a ledge, 300 ft. below the summit, that measured just 1 ft. wide...
...week. Foreign Minister Ohira put this drive in idealistic terms: "Asian prosperity is indispensable for the establishment of world peace.'' But wily Toshiba Electric Chairman Taizo Ishizaka. 76. puts his finger on a more immediate reason why Japan should help its neighbors. "Regional economic systems are the wave of the future,'' he says. "It is natural, therefore, that Japan should be interested in strengthening economic ties with her Asian neighbors." Hopelessly isolated from joining any of the world's common markets and aware that its phenomenal economic boom cannot last indefinitely without wider trade, Japan...
Partly because in the past he was denied financial backing by cautious Canadians, Taylor is impatient with both Canadian businessmen ("They've got to get off their duffs") and the new wave of Cana dian nationalism ("Have you ever heard of anything more outdated?"). A believer that older men should move on to new pastures to make way for bright younger men, he is ready to give up his four chairmanships at Argus (though probably not the presidency) when he reaches 65. Then he intends to turn his full attention to his first love: horses...
...publishers confidently believe that another wave of what has been called the Salinger generation will be a solid market for the last two Glass stories in hardcover at $4, both having appeared in The New Yorker, in 1955 and 1959 respectively. Outside the campus, there are signs that crabbed age is becoming short-tempered about the cutups in the Salinger kindergarten. London's New Statesman has muttered about "Zenny & Phooey." and Critic Mary McCarthy has brought her severe forensic intelligence to bear on Salinger and files a contemptuous brief which indicts him for attempting to feed the young...