Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PRELUDE: LANDSCAPES, CHARACTERS AND CONVERSATIONS FROM THE EARLIER YEARS OF MY LIFE, by Edmund Wilson. The critic's early career as a wide-ranging man of letters, as well as the end of the cozy, pre-1914 world he grew up in, are both reflected in this fascinating memoir...
...third group active in Cambridge is the Vote on Vietnam project, which is circulating a petition to put a "Get Out of Vietnam" resolution on the ballot in the city-wide election next November...
...running. "Big Minh" may poll a sizable number of votes in absentia, and Huong is expected to do well-but not nearly well enough. Thieu, in fact, may offer to appoint Huong Premier as another step toward unity and conciliation. As for Ky, whose withdrawal won wide praise as an act of genuine patriotism, he is expected to be given far more responsibility as Vice President than the new constitution calls for. Then, too, there is 1971 ahead-when Ky will still be barely...
...image, Moscow is now trying to achieve a foothold in Latin America through diplomacy and trade expansion (TIME, March 31). Such tactics, Castro claims, only help the "oligarchies" that he is trying to overthrow. To make sure that Moscow gets the point, Castro is planning a Latin America-wide meeting in Havana next month to discuss future strategies for his guerrilla wars of liberation. He is even setting up headquarters for a broader Tri-Continental Organization in-of all places-Cairo. Castro claims that Russian support of the Mideast cease-fire was a "capitulation" comparable to Khrushchev's withdrawal...
Chicago's municipal water-supply inlets and those of industries that draw water directly from the lake became clogged time and again with the little (two-to-seven-inch) alewives. Off Benton Harbor, Mich., an aerial photographer reported a ribbon of dead fish 50 ft. wide and 40 miles long floating on the surface of the lake...