Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relenting, particularly after several no-nonsense conferences with U.S. Deputy Ambassador Samuel Berger. For the first time since they were inaugurated one year ago last week. South Viet Nam's President and Vice President were seen in deep conversation in the corridor that separates the "Thieu wing" from the "Kywing" of Saigon's Independence Palace. Said Ky to an aide: "What can I do? I must accept this reconciliation for the sake of the country...
...interoffice battles raged, with Luce generally taking a middle course-he saw himself as liberal and mug wump, opposed to fascism as well as left-wing radicalism. Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, managing editor of FORTUNE, general manager of Time Inc. and later publisher of TIME, also quarreled with Luce politically, but more often about publishing matters. In 1938 Hitler was chosen to be TIME'S Man of the Year (the criterion, as always, was news impact not moral worth). Since no adequate color photograph was available, TIME had to settle for a rather innocuous picture of Hitler in khaki. Brooding...
...than the view from Olympus; in Athens. In a career punctuated by exile, jail and revolution, Papandreou preached a consistently leftist line, fought both the monarchy and Nazi invaders, and became Premier of World War II's government in exile. With peace, he returned to head a left-wing coalition that brought him to power again in 1963. But he resigned in 1965 as the nation's economy declined, social unrest grew and his disputes with King Constantine became ever more acrimonious. When the military junta took over in April 1967, Papandreou was put under house arrest...
...woman buys her own tomb and grows to love it. This teaches Camus the value of the present moment: "Let me cut this minute from the cloth of time. Others leave a flower between pages, enclosing in them a walk where love has touched them with its wing. I walk too, but am caressed by a god. Life is short, and it is sinful to waste one's time...
Harvard travels to Princeton Saturday to seek its seventh straight victory of the season against an opponent that features three of the Ivy League's top eight rushers and the nearly extinct single wing offense...