Word: arens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fooled an awful lot of people for a long time into thinking he speaks for the Buddhists of South Viet Nam. Now, I know he only pretends to speak for about one and a half million people." Critchfield also questions the immolations: "My impression is that these just aren't voluntary suicides." He is disturbed because his fellow reporters do not interview enough Vietnamese...
...William E. Depuy, "is to send in a small force as bait, let the enemy attack, and be able to react with a larger force in reserve near by. But if the enemy doesn't want to fight, then the jungle goes off in 360 directions. There just aren't enough landing zones in the jungle to corner Susie in the roundhouse...
...excitedly about the changes going on in Roxbury. He touches on urban renewal and construction of new buildings, mentions new schools and community centers, and then federal, state, and local relief programs with unintelligible letter codes--Operation Head Start, ABCD, or the BRA. He also talks about things that aren't changing so fast as one would like them to--crime and violence on the streets, unemployment, bad housing, discouraged people. Then into this quick sketch of the condition of Roxbury, Miller fits his own venture, the Banner...
...Pennsylvania. John McGinn, an old Penn coxswain and now a scientist in General Electric's laboratories at Valley Forge, Pa., has invented an electronic gizmo that enables Penn Coach Joseph Burk to tell at a glance in practice which of his oarsmen are pulling their weight - and which aren't. Attached to the oarlocks, miniature dynamometers measure the pull on each oar, flash the results on a board of 32 lights - four for each crewman. If all four lights flash on, the oarsman is exerting 280 Ibs. of pressure. Three means 265 Ibs., two means...
Slumping Stock Market. Many Irishmen viewed the bank strike with ebullient aplomb. "I had an overdraft due in two weeks," crowed a Dubliner, "now I can forget about it." Said an official of the Irish Central Bank, only half-jokingly: "People may soon decide that banks aren't necessary after all." Others took the situation more seriously. With cash scarce, trading on the Dublin Stock Exchange slumped, and the Tipperary cattle market closed altogether...