Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When North Viet Nam's President died of a heart attack in Hanoi last week at the age of 79, he left an impressive legacy of accomplishment. He had restored a sense of nationhood to Viet Nam. He had come to represent a form of "national Communism" that left him out of both the Chinese and the Soviet orbits, but prompted both powers to court him. With the limited resources of a tiny impoverished Asian nation?and with vast help from Peking and Moscow?he had withstood the enormous firepower of the mightiest industrial nation on earth. In so doing...
...There is something like a generation gap between the new leaders of the North and those below the 17th parallel. South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu is 46, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky turns 39 this week and Prime Minister Tran Thien Khiem is 44. Advanced age is no handicap in Viet Nam,, however; it is considered a badge of merit...
...four months old. But if it persists and gradually intensifies, it is probably an indication that the baby has Tay-Sachs disease. This is a rare genetic defect that leaves children completely paralyzed, deaf and blind by the time they are two, and is usually fatal by the age of four. Modern medicine knows no cure for Tay-Sachs (named for the physicians who first described the condition), but two scientists at the University of California's San Diego School of Medicine have now provided a means for detecting and avoiding...
American television networks seem to assume that their entire audience is below the age of consent. Thus the new season's most sophisticated entertainment may well be a British import drama rerun by NBC this Thursday, Male of the Species. First aired in the U.S. last January, the work is a dazzling, 90-minute model of urbanity...
...rise during negotiations next month, matching the increase so far this year in the cost of living. To sweeten the medicine-and partially disarm the opposition-the minister slightly eased the tax load and promised to raise family allowances for low-income groups, as well as to increase old-age pensions for everybody...