Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that it is all over, Bolivian President René Barrientos finds himself in the unusual position of being somewhat thankful for the guerrilla uprising led by Che Guevara and his Cubans. The guerrillas gave Barrientos and his government a bad time for several months, but since Che's death the band has been whittled down to about five men, on whom the Bolivian army is closing in this week in central Bolivia. With their campaign of violence and terror, Castro's followers did what Barrientos had never been able to do: consolidate and unify public opinion-however temporarily...
...effort to strengthen the economy, Castro has tried one fruitless scheme after another. He built a new, modern commercial-fishing fleet of 300 boats, then found that most Cubans simply do not care for fish. He expanded cattle herds, but the distribution system is so bad that most of the beef still is not reaching Cuban tables. Now he has launched several show projects, including a "Che Guevara Invader Brigade" to open up more than 150,000 acres for farming in central Cuba by stamping out the ubiquitous Marabu weed, and a campaign to clear a 100,000-acre "belt...
...story by Thomas Mann, is a boy with a 19th century-style identity crisis. Father is a rich and rigid businessman of the North; Mother is a warm-blooded romantic from the South who plays the mandolin and could hardly care less that Tonio fritters away his time writing bad poems and getting bad marks at school. Tonio appreciates this permissiveness but disapproves of it; his father's strictness seems more dignified: "After all, we are not gypsies living in a green wagon...
...tunnel" a few weeks ago, recent events have made the path to peace as tortuous as ever. The State Department's leading exponent of a "hard line" in Asia. Assistant Secretary William P. Bundy, said Hanoi's firm offer was little more than a dangerous propaganda device full of bad intentions. Bundy seemed to feel that Trinh's statement was like an LSD sugar cube--if we grabbed at it, we might blow our cool for good. Bundy's less outspoken boss, Dean Rusk, was not as upset by Hanoi's offer. He said he thought Trinh's speech represented...
...lead at the end of the first period on two scores by Cavanagh, one by Barker, and one off the stick of left defenseman David Jones. Jones, described by Coach Gene Kinasewich as probably the "hardest shooter at Harvard, including the varsity," took advantage of a bad clear by his Dartmouth counterpart to drill a wrist shot from the blue line over the Hanover goalie's shoulder...