Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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You missed the biggest story out there in Hong Kong. True, Cheong Sam skirts and shopping infuse the tourist with excitement, but what about the building of the housing estate blocks that are taking 1,000,000 refugees out of hillside squatter shacks and changing the whole face of the...
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Arthur Koestler undoubtedly has a marvelous mind, but his most recent pronouncements regarding the futility of looking to Asia for enlightenment and spiritual guidance seem exceedingly irresponsible, unfair and misleading. By dwelling on the extremes of Oriental religions and their mystifying mysticism, he grossly distorts the wisdom of the East...
The article should have been printed under Business, as it was not saintmanship but salesmanship that was the goal of the author.
Prince Philip (Nov. 21) for once is wrong. The science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it is not dentopedalogy (which is really the science of biting the foot which kicks you; it is a Post Office term). Prince Philip meant orpatopedalogy.