Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight years old, and its high white contrails and graceful, swept-wing planes are familiar sights from the most cosmopolitan cities to the farthest provinces of the globe. Flight has grown into an absolute essential for mobile, modern man. By occasional tourist and veteran traveler, the big aircraft are recognized as the most comfortable, convenient means of long-distance travel. Yet hardly a passenger escapes entirely from an ancient skepticism, a lurking suspicion that manned flight is somehow unnatural and inherently dangerous. The hazards are always magnified. Just as the Sunday driver tends to minimize the difficulties of the crowded...
...wing and in full, rasping voice, Humphrey maintains that he is crusading for the same causes that he has always championed. In early youth, he revered Woodrow Wilson's concept of collective security ("the right of nations great and small and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life"). He fought isolationism in his native Midwest in the '30s. From the first, he supported the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan and NATO. To him, history is of one piece. "You can't be a world leader," he reasons, "and want to lead only...
...Johnson as mentor-a facet of their relationship that has held constant-Humphrey learned to make his peace with his elders, to accept compromise and delay as the price of worthwhile legislation. Humphrey's contribution to the partnership was to be Johnson's link to the liberal wing in his drive for a commanding position in the Senate...
...week's end the dispute was rapidly boiling toward a crisis. Though Stephanopoulos backs Grivas, Makarios has the support of the Greek Foreign Minister, the right wing, the Communists, and possibly even King Constantine himself. Makarios also remains strong among the Cypriote. This week Grivas is scheduled to fly to Athens to plan his next move with Stephanopoulos...
Reischauer has been ambassador to Japan longer than any other man since Joseph C. Grew '02, who held the post from 1931-1941. When he was appointed in 1961, there was allegedly opposition from conservative circles who feared his progressive policies would encourage the left-wing in Japan...