Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even if aircraft had been available, however, Washington officials question whether it would have been wise to send them to Pueblo's aid. The hijack was evidently well planned, and it was quite possible that an ambush awaited any rescue force; at Wonsan perched 50 to 100 MIGS, and South Korean intelligence spotted two additional Communist squadrons flying near the DMZ about the time of Pueblo's capture. Further, in towing Pueblo into Wonsan, the Koreans sailed in close formation, which would have made it difficult for a strafing plane to avoid killing Americans. Once in Wonsan...
...Business. Of course Congress, like some primitive tribes, must have its bit of ritual prior to the bloodletting. Loyalist Democrats, in their wisdom, found the President's speech "wise"; doubting Democrats like Wilbur Mills bespoke their position with silence; the Republicans tsk-tsked that the President had merely delivered a state-of-the-campaign address. Other non-developments materialized on cue. On opening day, the Senate bickered over whether to admit to the record an antiwar petition by Jeanette Rankin, 87, a former Congresswoman from Montana, who led 3,200 protesting women to the snowy foot of Capitol Hill...
...thing all France wants is Olympic victory this February, particularly on its home turf at Grenoble. Killy is happy, healthy and wise enough to know that the warmups are just that. Wait. And so last week in the second half of the giant slalom at Adelboden, Switzerland, Killy roared out of the start and flashed down the 1,800-meter course, carving and skating through the 60 gates to finish in 1 min. 34.1 sec., a good 1.5 sec. ahead of his closest pursuer and enough to give him his first major win of the year. KILLY'S REVENGE...
...play is now a Broadway staple. Lawrence Holofcener's Before You Go ranks with Two for the Seesaw and The Owl and the Pussycat as the best of the genre. Wry, perceptive, honest, sad, funny and tender, it is compassionately discerning about two people who are not quite wise to themselves...
...message doesn't seem to have gotten through to these people: graduate school will not be an automatic deferment next year, teaching jobs will be flooded with applicants, it will be increasingly difficult to obtain conscientious objector status once out of college, and the draft boards will be wise to the draft dodgers' classic evasions--carrying a purse to induction, singing Alice's Restaurant, and showing up in black pajamas shouting "I want to kill, kill, kill." In a word, it will be extremely difficult to stay out of the Army next year...