Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rheault's replacement, Colonel Alexander Lemberes, said he was just as puzzled as everyone else. He had only 15 minutes to pack after being notified that he was replacing Rheault, and subsequently broke his right ankle in a hasty attempt to qualify as a parachutist -something all Green Berets must...
...shooting war, changing alliances, a U.S. troop withdrawal that has already begun. By contrast, in Rumania the President had almost no major questions of the moment on his mind. As the first U.S. chief executive to visit a Communist nation since the cold war began, Nixon last week broke diplomatic ground just by arriving in Bucharest. "We seek normal relations with all countries, regardless of their domestic systems," the President assured Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu. The two leaders thus began with nowhere to go but up. Whatever the eventual results, the visit represented a milestone in Nixon's promised...
Despite complaints, provocative and timely ideas broke through the verbal fog of Delos. Sociologist Robert Merton of Columbia suggested that the class structure in the West is undergoing a profound revolution as upper-middle-class and working-class life styles approach each other, and upper-middle-class youths reject their traditional aspirations. Harvard Political Scientist Karl Deutsch elaborated a theory that certain employers, such as sanitation departments, perpetuate poverty by exploiting low-paid labor. As he sees it, low-paid occupations ranging from domestic service to teaching may have to be subsidized. Jerome Monod, the French planner, also described...
...Rigors of the Oval Office But in some respects, a presidential candidate must be above the larger human frailties. Some people will always wonder whether Kennedy, who at best bent and broke under extreme pressure, can stand up to the rigors of the Oval Office. Would his judgment, like his brother's, remain unimpaired through the tension of a Cuban missile crisis? "Can we really trust him if the Russians come over the ice cap?" asked one Washington analyst last week. "Can he make the kind of split-second decisions the astronauts had to make in their landing...
...other service industries associated with tourism. The Revolution, of course, ended the prostitution and gambling immediately. Now, I don't want to make it sound like all the women of Havana were prostitutes or cleaning women; but it was significant numerically and much more so psychologically. The Revolution broke that pattern, and women are playing an increasingly independent role in the economy...