Word: wind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When one of the President's top aides was asked whether the Administration was swinging to the right, he replied: "Sure-every other time." Only a few months ago, the liberals seemed to be in the ascendant. "It's the way you sail a boat when the wind's against you," says another White House staffer. "You tack. You average the headings...
...number of experts are agreed on one point: erotic art often unduly celebrates sexual prowess to the exclusion of such qualities as tenderness, patience, courage, humor or honesty. If sex is universally regarded as the ultimate status symbol, as Playboy and the pornocrats suggest, many responsible adults will wind up feeling cheated, and alienated; at the same time, and ironically, the aim of sex will become mental rather than sensory...
SOUNDS OF SUMMER (NET, 8-10 p.m.). Steve Allen takes viewers on a tour of June festivities in Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle, dropping in on the American Wind Symphony's riverside concert, an international folk festival, and a performance by Duquesne University's tamburitzan dancer-musicians...
...ordered his aides to draw up a schedule of the other items that must be settled before Britain's admission could be taken up anew. "Don't take a vacation during the Christmas season," Rey warned newsmen. Before year's end, he expects marathon sessions to wind up the Common Market's interim period of tariff adjustments, to sort out the thorny agriculture support-price issue, and to grant increased supranational powers to the EEC's executive and parliament. Said Rey: "If the solutions are not ready at midnight on Dec. 31, we will stop...
...scientists of the Bell Telephone Laboratories four years ago, may well be the remnants of the primordial flash that, according to many astronomers, gave birth to the universe more than 10 billion years ago. Just as a cyclist feels more of a breeze when he rides with the wind in his face rather than at his back, the lingering radiation from the so-called "big bang" would appear slightly stronger to an observer on earth when the planet is moving toward the radio waves. Conklin figured that if he could somehow determine the apparent excess of radiation caused...