Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fair Fight. As an apparent indication of Washington's concern, U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker invited Ky to lunch last week and reportedly urged him to remain in the race, assuring him that the U.S. desired a fair fight. But many Vietnamese and Americans alike wonder whether that is really what Washington wants. They are deeply concerned that the U.S. has become over-identified with Thieu. Accordingly, four former AID employees have launched an intensive lobbying campaign in Washington to reinforce U.S. neutrality during the Vietnamese elections. They advocate creation of a U.S. congressional commission to "observe and study...
Liberal Drift. "People always wonder about people of faith-whether they live it," remarks Niebuhr Biographer June Bingham. "The last 20 years of his life were years of severe pain. He bore them with grace and humor." In those same years a younger generation of Protestant liberals was drifting away from Niebuhr's concept of constantly contending self-interest to revolutionary, third-world romanticism. He had decried "a too-simple social radicalism [that] does not recognize how quickly the poor, the weak, the despised of yesterday may, on gaining a social victory over their detractors, exhibit the same arrogance...
...culture has been all but smothered by normalization. Dozens of controversial magazines and newspapers are banned. The only books that can be published are those "helpful to socialism." Even the Czechoslovak Union of Gymnasts has had to pledge to "intensify the political education of all members." It is no wonder that, as TIME Correspondent Burton Pines cabled after a visit to Prague: "The population has become lifeless beyond cynicism...
...That about wraps it up. I want to thank Dick Cavett for being our guest this evening . . . (SUDDENLY THE STAGE MANAGER PRODUCES A HASTILY MADE CUE CARD; THERE'S NO RECOURSE EXCEPT TO READ IT.)Tomorrow my guests will be Greta Howard Hughes, Charlie Chaplin ?and Bozo, the Wonder Chimp! [Applause and laughter.] Say good night, Dick...
BELMONT PARK, Elmont. N. Y.- Pedro Baptista and Canonero II, his Venezuelan wonder horse, double-handedly drew a crowd of well wishers. They have made the modest little stall 109B a red-hot tourist attraction for trippers from all over who dig the idea of a Triple Crown winner...