Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crisis in Japan raised a red flag of danger where one should always be flying. Japan, heretofore considered a pro-Western bastion, was now a question mark: a sovereign nation not yet able to defend itself, a democracy not yet strong enough to repel serious, if sporadic, Communist infiltration. Japan's first duty was to pull itself together and get on with the economic and political future that lay in the full promise of its free institutions. The U.S.'s duty was to guarantee unequivocally that nothing should be allowed to interfere with that promise...
...instead of in the helicopter that stood ready at the international airport. MacArthur's explanation: As a test for Ike, "we had to find out just how far the mob would go." They found out when Zengakuren students mobbed MacArthur's limousine, tore off the American flag and forced Hagerty & Co. to retreat to the helicopter (TIME, June...
...Castro waxed more frantic against "Yankee imperialists," he grew ever friendlier to Russia. In Moscow, his henchman Antonio Nunez Jimenez presented a Cuban flag to the top Russian of them all, and soon Nikita Khrushchev will visit Cuba. If Castro was not yet enlisted in the Communist camp, he had become too comradely for comfort, in a place just 100 miles off Florida...
Purchased from Manhattan dealers, the uncut bolts of flags, generally the small, nonceremonial kind, are retailing for about 20? a yard. Port-au-Prince cloth merchants alone have already sold the equivalent of more than 1,000,000 Old Glories. Dealer Pierre Assad, who bought the flag material from Manhattan's Philip Rothman at 12? a yard, also has bolts and bolts of Hungarian and Polish cloth, but says the U.S. flag "is beating the hell out of the Communist material...
Though no longer useful for flags, the stars and stripes on shirts and sheets strike visiting U.S. tourists as a desecration. In Washington last week Oregon Congressman Charles O. Porter introduced a bill to stop the manufacture, sale or gift of any type of U.S. flag where its use might "cast contempt." It will probably go through, but until then, Haiti's peasantry will continue to look like a Navy recruiting poster...