Word: ac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Gamal Abdel Nasser rose last week to give his first major speech of the year before 20,000 aircraft workers in the Cairo suburb of Helwan, he was greeted by the usual cheers. The volume increased when he made his ac customed vow to force the Israeli army to retreat from Arab land "inch by inch, regardless of the cost or sacrifice." But at Helwan, which he has turned into a showcase of Arab social ist industrial achievement, Nasser also heard an unaccustomed chant that could only have chilled him. "Nasser, Nasser, Nasser!" the workers cried, "Change, change, change...
...Thuot, the attackers used civilians as human shields, pushing from 1,000 to 4,000 people ahead of them in four separate marches. In Hué, U.S. Marines found two executed Americans, their testicles cut off. The North Vietnamese units who took Hué were ac companied by political commissars wearing gold-colored Ho Chi Minh buttons and special arm bands. Armed with complete dossiers and photographs of government officials to be arrested and executed, they methodically went from house to house with clipboards and notebooks, looking for their quarry...
...Helsinki, Palmer and the eggs get themselves scrambled with a beautiful blonde spy (the late Françoise Dorléac) who is cooling it in red fox, and a jolly American spy (Karl Malden), who is sweating it in a sauna bath. Both of them are working for General Midwinter, a mad Texas multimillionaire (Ed Begley), who is operating a private CIA against Russia, coordinated by a giant walk-in computer complex-the billion-dollar brain...
...committee's statement is being mailed to 3,600 of the nation's academicians for endorsement. "The ac ademic community and the students in particular have gone pretty far out on one side of this," said Reischauer. "But we've got to have a sensible Asian policy. We're saying that America does have a role in Asia, and let's not blow our tops and do something foolish...
...studied economics at Cornell and business administration at Colum bia; he had worked for three companies to get seasoning for a career in management. He was doing well at his latest job in the corporate planning department of Olivetti-Underwood Corp., where he was involved in efforts to ac quire new companies. Then, one morning, while staring moodily out the window of a New York Central commuter train, Colvin had an idea. Instead of making mergers himself, why not teach other people how to make them...