Word: beset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Healing & Dealing. Yet somehow, beset with profit fever, talent anemia, labor pains, galloping costitis and an acute customer deficiency, the Fabulous Invalid staggers into her spurious finery every fall. And somehow she manages to last the winter. If a cure is possible, Merrick has not found it. Yet in a spectacular series of operations that involve both healing and dealing, cutting throats and cauterizing abuses, he has contrived to keep the patient above-ground and to generate a genuine hope that U.S. theater can eventually get back on its-well, anyway, on its two left feet. That hope, David Merrick...
...withdraw from Viet Nam under any conditions short of peace, security and the right of self-determination for the South Vietnamese people, what conclusions would be drawn in the independent nations of Asia? In Western Europe? In the young, struggling countries of Africa? In the nations of Latin America beset by subversion and unrest? What conclusions would be drawn in Hanoi and Peking? This time we cannot afford to learn the hard...
...Central African Republic, beset by everything from Chinese subversion to ministerial embezzlement to a staggering civil service payroll of 50,000 (for a population of 1.4 million), President David Dacko was overthrown by Colonel Jean-Bedel Bokassa, his cousin, who announced that he had acted "to head off two other coups, one against me and one against President Dacko...
...fact that there are more Democrats than Republicans--at Harvard and in the country as a whole--is only of the many problems that beset Young Dems, and it is more serious than it sounds. It has led not to a crisis in membership numbers, for although membership has declined to 750 from a 1964-65 high of 900, Young Dems is still the largest political organization at Harvard. But it has lead to a crisis in identity...
...DAUGHTERS OF ORANGE (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). An examination of the Dutch ruling family and the troubles that beset modern monarchy in general...