Word: wing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Institute of Mental Health, a wing of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, had previously announced that it was cutting its sponsorship of all research projects, including Chiapas, that would take federal money outside of the country...
Vogt released confirmation from the National Institute yesterday that Chiapas would receive the necessary money--$5150--to finance the foreign wing of its program. That will send 13 Harvard students to Mexico for the summer...
...encapsulation. The couples act as ever, drinking too much, gossiping about the affairs already begun and negotiating arrangements for the next. Harold Smith tells of how he and "three of my most Republican associates" were having lunch when the news came. "Well, naturally everyone assumed that a right-wing crackpot had done it," he says. "We were all very pious and tut-tutty. Then young Ed called up absolutely ecstatic and said, 'Did you hear? It wasn't one of ours, it was one of theirs!' " And the party goes...
...Guardian. "They could be puddings, breasts, biological specimens-but they could also be offerings to some ultrasophisticated deity." Trying to read the riddle of his abstract, Shmoo-shaped objects is really a waste of time and effort, Price says. Their true secret, he feels, lies in their iridescent dragonfly-wing colors. These are achieved by spraying on 20 thin coats of high quality lacquer, which, he proudly points out, is the same method used on the West Coast for first-rate hotrod jobs...
E.A.A. has flown a long way from the wing-and-a-prayer operation that the British organized in 1946 to open up what was then known as British East Africa. Starting with six buzzing, roaring De Havilland biplanes, E.A.A. pilots crisscrossed the area's four territories-Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika and Zanzibar (merged into Tanzania in 1964)-bringing air service to such remote spots as Lake Victoria and Kilimanjaro. When it ventured overseas in 1957 with DC-4 flights to London and Bombay, E.A.A. happily discovered that traffic in English civil servants and schoolboys could make up the losses...