Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Looking Outward. Something of a demagogue, natty little Kamuzu Banda, nevertheless, is wise enough to know where his country's wherewithal must come from. He has asked for and received a large and immensely popular contingent from the U.S. Peace Corps. He has persuaded the British to make up budget deficits of Malawi for its first five years of nationhood. He has established friendly relations with the Portuguese, who control his only outlet to the sea. He has persuaded London's Colonial Development Corporation to advance the bulk of the cash needed for a Shire River power project...
Seeing the New York World's Fair can be dandy or disastrous. The difference is in the planning. Herewith, the best exhibits and a sampling of the rest. A word to the wise: the best is not always at the end of the longest line...
There was once a sultan with a harem of jealous wives. Being a wise man, the sultan secretly gave to each wife a blue bead. When they sought proof of his affection, he would say, "I love the one who has the blue bead." Thus he was able to live happily ever after...
Justice Tom Clark, joined by Justices Harlan and White in dissenting, was puzzled. "Which Communist Party member is worthy of trust?" he asked. "Since the party is a secret, conspiratorial organization subject to rigid discipline by Moscow, the Congress merely determined that it was not wise to take the risk which foreign travel by Communists entailed...
Flitting through the thickly wooded mountainsides, Tiro Fijo's men fought half a dozen bitter skirmishes. But in the deadly game of hide-and-seek, the guerrilla-wise soldiers came out on top, pressed steadily on toward Tiro Fijo's hacienda headquarters. Early one morning last week, a fleet of helicopters airlifted 170 crack troops into position surrounding the hacienda. The desperate Communists opened fire from underbrush and foxholes. In the three-hour fight, they wounded only one soldier; finally Tiro Fijo put the hacienda to torch and retreated into the mountains. That night his men ambushed...