Word: broad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blowtorch. To ensure that Bunker would be free to concentrate on the broad aspects of the war, the President appointed an old Texas friend as Deputy Ambassador. Dallas-born Eugene Murphy Locke, 49, who since last June has been U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, will take over Bill Porter's role as meeter, greeter and all-purpose paper hanger in the Saigon embassy. A blond, burly classmate (Yale Law, '40) of such notables as Supreme Court Justices Byron White and Potter Stewart and Poverty Potentate Sargent Shriver, Locke was a Navy gunnery officer during World War II; his ship...
...Huks have set up their own courts, which are the law of the land in broad stretches of central Luzon. Huk justice is swift and decisive: cattle thieves and rapists, for example, are often executed on the spot. Huk agents exact tribute and taxes from thousands of Filipinos. The biggest collection center is Angeles City near the U.S. Air Force's Clark Field. Maids for American families must pay five pesos ($1.25) monthly to the Huks; Huk treasurers take a big rake-off from the gambling parlors and bars frequented by U.S. troops...
...into power in 1964. "Social humanism," Costa told Brazilians last week, "will be the most profound root of my government." Gently divorcing himself from the harsh economic and social controls that made Castello Branco un popular, Costa promised more homes, hospitals, schools and "comforts" for the poor, and a broad program of public works to spur national development and investment...
...neurologist, then switched to the social and analytic sides of psychiatry. He says that his approach is "basically Freudian," but of his Yale department he insists: "We are undogmatic, uncommitted to any particular point of view or school of thought. We are at the threshold of a broad new psychiatry that will use the knowledge of many disciplines...
...stage, Succeed succeeded by being as broad as it was wide. A pastel-colored animated cartoon of contemporary big business, it musically chronicled the rise of a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed rodent, J. Pierpont Finch (Robert Morse), who won the rat race by running just fast enough to keep up with his boss (Rudy Vallee...