Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...between the U.S. press, the Saigon government and the U.S. embassy, and very much in the midst of the bitter political battles that ended the career and the life of President Ngo Dinh Diem. Yet "Meek the Knife" emerged from his difficult tour of duty to write an excellent account of the South Vietnamese war which he called Mission in Torment (see BOOKS). Author Mecklin had unique credentials for the task, having reported the .disastrous French campaign against the Communists and the establishment of the Diem regime for TIME between 1953 and 1955. He also covered the Middle East...
Most of this year's decline involves apartment buildings, construction of which had spurted through the early '60s to account for 36% of new housing (a proportion not reached since the 20's). Rental construction is slipping in such major areas as New York, Chicago, Dallas, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.- but has gained in the suburbs and in smaller cities...
...committee must decide several questions relating to the Gen Ed program as well as those specifically voted on by the Faculty. The Faculty voted to recommend that departments invest 10 per cent of their teaching time in the Gen Ed program (presently, Gen Ed courses account or some seven per cent of all teaching Harvard...
...Hersey attended Hotchkiss and Yale ('36). After a postgraduate year at Cambridge, he came back to be secretary to Sinclair Lewis, then war correspondent for TIME and LIFE. His third book, A Bell for Adano, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945 and was followed by the celebrated account of the Hiroshima bombing. His newest novel is White Lotus, an allegory in which white Americans are forced to experience-in a Chinese setting-the centuries-long bondage of American Negroes...
...class didn't ask her to do it, but Novelist Mary McCarthy has made Vassar's class of '33 famous. Her fic- tionalized account of how eight of them came roaring down from Poughkeepsie straight into the toils and troubles of REAL LIFE kept The Group on the best seller list for 48 consecutive weeks. Now it is Hollywood's round, and the daisy chain of speculation has shifted from who-was-really-who to how-will-we-all-look? The class needn't fret. '33 will look good, like a Vassar class should...