Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before the Assembly opened, the U.N. Security Council in a rare and impressive show of Big Power unanimity arranged the cease-fire in Kashmir. And in just a week Pope Paul VI, spiritual leader of a fifth of the world's people, was to arrive from Rome to wish an historic godspeed to the U.N. and its peacemaking role...
...took sides with Brigadier General Antonio Imbert's loyalist junta-"a corrupt and reactionary military oligarchy." Concluded Fulbright: "If we are automatically to oppose any reform movement that Communists adhere to, we are likely to end up opposing every reform movement, making ourselves the prisoners of reactionaries who wish to preserve the status...
...battered Bears wish they could forget last week's disaster, how must Alabama, Iowa and Army feel? The No. 1 -ranked team in the U.S. last year, Alabama lost to underdog Georgia 18-17. Iowa, picked by many experts to win the Big Ten championship, was upset by Washington State, 7-0. And Army, reckoned as an Eastern power, failed to reckon on Tennessee Sophomore Charles Fulton - who threw two touchdown passes and led the Volunteers to an easy 21-0 victory...
...controversy rages. Perhaps the late Artur Rodzinski said it all during a recording session with Pianist Paul Badura-Skoda. Listening to a patched-up playback of one of their tapes Badura-Skoda exclaimed: "Listen! Isn't that magnificent?" "Yes," replied the maestro dryly, "don't you wish you could play that...
Venezuela's Prieto Quintuplets are two years old, and as fine a bunch of healthy, pot-banging toddlers as anyone could wish. All of which would keep Mrs. Inés Cuervo de Prieto, 36, and her oilfield worker husband hopping-even if they didn't have a new set of nine-month-old twins and five other kids around the house. Last week Mrs. Prieto sighed and reported that she is again expecting in December. "It's frightening," muttered the father. Wailed the mother: "It's impossible...