Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Viet Nam is no place for the 90-day wonder or the left-footed recruit. It is a place for the career man, the highly trained specialist. Because of this, the U.S. force in Viet Nam is top-heavy with officers; of 15,200 Army personnel, about 5,000 are commissioned...
...same time, the work being done by the American combatants, given a greater but still limited amount of combat leeway, is having its intended effect: it is hiking the price of aggression to the point where Hanoi and Peking obviously are beginning to wonder whether it is worth the cost. Last week even a left-wing French journalist, recently a visitor in North Viet Nam, reported that the Hanoi government was alarmed and astonished by the American stand, that it might be starting to look for a way out of continuing a more and more costly conflict (see THE WORLD...
This is the only winning rhetoric that the Republicans have had in a long time and it is no wonder that Goldwater and Miller, whose political careers began around 1950, fell back on these comfortable issues when their their new, barely disguised appeals to racism failed. Goldwater, it will be remembered, at one point called Lyndon Johnson soft on Communism (he said Nixon suggested it, which isn't very hard to believe). He parried criticism from abroad by claiming that the Europeans were simply afraid that he would cut off American economic aid. Bill Miller fell back on such early...
...little wonder that the airlines are on a buying spree. Since 1962, jet transports have proved to be flying cash registers-twice as fast and three times as profitable as the best piston-engine planes. So efficient are the jets that Boeing 707s, for instance, break even with passenger loads as low as 39% of capacity. The industry's load average rose to 55% last year, enough to return the eleven U.S. trunk carriers 11% on their $2.3 billion investment, the highest rate in 15 years. This has produced some speculation that the Civil Aeronautics Board may order fare...
...Kubla Khan, Roy ("Giltfinger") Hofheinz, it obviously had to be a pleasure dome on the order of the Great Pyramid or the Colossus of Rhodes. To Builder Hofheinz, Houston's new, $31.6 million "Astrodome" - the first covered, fully air-conditioned baseball stadium -is literally "the Eighth Wonder of the World." When he showed it off to French Ambassador Hervé Alphand, the ambassador made the mistake of remarking that the Astrodome's lattice work roof reminded him of the Eiffel Tower. Sniffed Hofheinz: "The Eiffel Tower is all right, but you can't play ball there...