Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam, but while I was at home on leave, I myself noticed a change for the better in the police force of Los Angeles. Being a Negro, and part of this younger generation, I wish to say to Chief Reddin that we are watching closely. It is good to know that the residents of Los Angeles now have someone in the police chief's office who gives a damn...
...century art, around his Manhattan apartment back in 1956, she took one horrified look at the wealth of modern art hanging on the walls and gasped: "It's a nice place, but get rid of those terrible paintings!" Twelve years later, Sonja Henie, 55, is finally getting that wish. She and her husband Niels Onstad are giving Oslo an $8 million gallery to be stocked with more than 200 paintings from their world-famed collection of moderns. But the parting, it turns out, is sweet sorrow for Sonja, who has become an avid modernist. Ah well, they still have...
...wish my dentist would erase...
...secret around the White House that the President earnestly hopes to finish his term with a flourish that would include both a Viet Nam settlement and a broad rapprochement with the Soviet Union, topped off with a visit to Moscow. Honolulu did nothing to further the first wish. Developments in Czechoslovakia did nothing to hasten the other...
World of Work. The reform is long overdue. During the post-Sputnik era, so much fanfare was given to college preparation that shop training was neglected-to the detriment of millions of youngsters who had neither the wish nor the wherewithal for higher education. One million students drop out of U.S. high schools each year. Out of every five pupils who entered fifth grade in 1957, according to the U.S. Office of Education, only one has stuck it out to pick up his diploma next year. At the same time, only one in four is receiving vocational training in high...