Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless, the imposing array of officialdom at the Honolulu talks signaled that the President intended to conduct a wide-ranging examination of the military, political and psychological conduct of the Viet Nam war-indeed, of U.S. strategy in all Southeast Asia. From Washington came Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earle Wheeler, retired Joint Chairman Maxwell Taylor, White House Adviser McGeorge Bundy, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner and Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman. From Saigon came a 28-member South Vietnamese entourage headed by Ky, Chief...
...most spectacular U.S. engineering project of the war is Cam Ranh Bay, a 15-mile-long, five-mile-wide deep-water harbor 190 miles north of Saigon. Seven months ago it was a pristine, sun-blanched wasteland; today it is a frenetic modern port that rivals Charleston's in size. There, last week, building supplies, ammunition and barrels of fuel were stacked endlessly on the beaches near rows of new ware houses and barracks. On a flattened hilltop, antiaircraft Hawk missiles stood at the ready. Nearby, giant C-130 cargo planes and F-4 Phantom jet fighters returning from...
...bleak, windswept Kootenay 'hills lay empty as a ghost town. Winter snows blanketed the black hulls of bathtubs, the skeletons of old beds, the charred frames of burnt-out houses. Wolves loped where the valleys once ran fat with cattle, and local ranchers gave the town a wide berth. Then, last week, life returned to Krestova (which in Russian means "City of the Cross"). A band of burly, hard-eyed men and women with thick Russian accents trickled back to the Kootenays. The Doukhobors were coming home...
...Centers have already eben built in other parts of the country. Most of these, however, have special areas of study to which they devote most of their time. Trum said that he would try to keep the Center uncommitted to any specialization, making it available for research in a wide variety of fields...
Demy has technical problems with his images, problems I found very disturbing despite the apparently secondary importance of image to Demy's conception of this film. To use color the way he wants to, he needed lots of light, and had to shoot with his camera wide open. This gave him serious focus problems, and sometimes Umbrellas gets as fuzzy as a home movie...