Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From a window of the grey, six-story U.S. embassy in Saigon, Ambassador Maxwell Taylor and U.S. Military Advisory Chief William Westmoreland gazed down on the violent scene. Massed in the street before the embassy was a cursing, fist-shaking throng led by some 300 yellow-robed Buddhist monks and nuns, screaming demands that the U.S. abandon Premier Tran Van Huong -and thinly veiled invitations that it get out of South Viet...
...soon forget the scene of that army of police, massing silently in the night, and a photographer peering out the press room window and remarking with a thin smile: "It seems to me I read all about this somewhere before...
Wisconsin's freshman Democratic Representative John A. Race, 50, made it picture-window clear that he has no conflict-of-interest problems. His statement of assets: 1961 Chevrolet, $1,000; home in Fond du Lac, $7,200 (minus a $6,000 mortgage); cash, $500. In fact, since he quit his $125-a-week machinist's job to campaign in July, he, his wife and daughter "have been eating bean soup and peanut-butter sandwiches"; and he borrowed $1,750 from his campaign fund, and $1,500 from the bank to tide him over until he could start collecting...
...start the mood was bullish. First up were European blue chips: a Kandinsky watercolor went for $7,200, a Salvador Dali watercolor reached an extraordinary $11,500, and a fine 1921 Mondrian peaked at $42,000. Then Russian-born Nicolas de Staël, who jumped out his studio window in 1955, sent bids skyrocketing when his semi-abstraction, Fleurs, soared to $68,000 to set a new record. In all, four works by De Staël brought...
...city tenement life that showed Negroes as all-too-human beings instead of ranting symbols of oppression, winning her the 1959 New York Drama Critics Circle Award and earning some $300,000 in movie rights; of cancer; in Manhattan. Her second play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, which examined Greenwich Village's demimonde, opened last October just before she was hospitalized, closed the day after her death...