Word: winter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam, when one out of five Americans moves each year, when the small-towner can often afford the same cars for his garage or the same clothes for his wife (Norells or Balenciagas) as the old-rich East, when Ohioans or Kansans or Oklahomans routinely take a winter vacation in the Bahamas or cruise the Greek islands in summer...
Clearly, though, Lyndon Johnson has learned that delicate diplomatic maneuverings can only be endangered by extravagant window dressing. He waged last winter's peace offensive, as Columnist Max Lerner noted, "as if he wanted his Texas yell to be heard over the rooftops of the world." Now, despite the spectacular advance billing for the Manila conference, the Administration's dealings with the Communist world and America's emerging allies in Asia are being conducted in sober, muted tones...
When Jackie Gleason suddenly up and announced his retirement from CBS television last winter, he got a wire of "appreciation" from an NBC vice president. The telegram was ill timed. In the first place, the Gleason show had become so lackluster in recent seasons that he already seemed semiretired. In the second place, Gleason turned right around and signed an $8,000,000 deal with CBS for one more season. It would be, he proclaimed, "something different" and "something better...
Brown's narration was corny--yet totally unselfconscious. The young California surfers in the featured roles mugged shamelessly, as people always do in home movies--but once they paddled their boards out to catch the fearsome winter waves, they were awesome...
Radcliffe, which daily defies Providence by schooling women away from beneficent ignorance, gave the Natural Order another kick in the pants yesterday by holding a spring fertility rite some two months before the beginning of winter...