Word: souvenirs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city's role in modern diplomacy began with the Battle of Solferino in Italy in 1859. A Genevan traveler, Henri Dunant, was so appalled by the spectacle of the wounded French and Austrian soldiers left to die on the battlefield that he wrote an indignant book titled Un Souvenir de Solferino. From that book came the Geneva Convention of 1864, in which 16 nations agreed for the first time on humane treatment for the wounded. From Dunant's protest also came the creation of the International Red Cross...
...particular Navy surveillance satellite program is so secret that officials are not even supposed to utter its code name, Project Whitecloud, over the telephone. Yet at NASA's Johnson Space Center gift shop in Houston, souvenir envelopes decorated with detailed drawings of the satellite, clearly labeled PROJECT WHITECLOUD, had been on sale at $1 apiece for years. The envelopes even explained how the satellite dispensed three smaller craft in 700-mile-high orbits to scan the ocean, monitoring "shipboard radar and communications signals." It was hardly a hot seller: only about 35 had been purchased since...
NASA said it has nothing to do with the souvenir and declined to comment on whether Project Whitecloud, first launched in 1976, is a continuing operation. As it turns out, the envelope designer was no great intelligence sleuth. Robert Rank of Union City, N.J., a supervisor for the New York City social-services department and freelance souvenir maker, believes he found the model for his envelope sketch and the description of Whitecloud in a 1976 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology...
...onward, there was certainly no lack of African and Oceanic tribal art on public view. There was also plenty to be bought-though much of it, including some of the masks and figures that influenced Derain, Matisse and Picasso, was poor stuff made, even then, in Africa for the souvenir-and-curio market...
...unstrategically overordered and have landed them selves in the ticket-brokering business on a big scale. A brisk market also developed in team pins, something of an Olympic tradition. "It's not like just a football game or something," said Cathy Fresh water, a supermarket checker and souvenir canvasser. "I'm going to be late for work but it's worth...