Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advance about 15 miles on the road north of Vientiane, but only because the Pathet Lao withdrew. The Pathet Lao took the small town of Tha Thom in central Laos after the royal army fled. U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Harry Felt himself flew into Udon to try to buck up the pro-Western army chief, General Phoumi Nosavan-but with no noticeable results. Complained one military man in Vientiane: "This is war, dammit, but the Laotians are just not willing to risk getting killed. They don't think past tomorrow, and many not even as far ahead...
Overseas, there is widespread concern. The Times Literary Supplement has warned stiffly, if somewhat forlornly, that "Atropos must be left in no doubt that the snap of these abhorred shears will be disagreeably audible in all seven continents." But Paul H. Buck is made of sterner stuff, and his Annual Report for 1959-60 echoes the language of that awesome moralist, Samuel Johnson ("The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time"). "Careful assessment of the Library's needs," Buck writes tonelessly, "indicated that other calls upon unrestricted money deserved a higher priority...
Bundy's predecessor, Paul S. Buck, set the precedent for a strong Deanship, not only when he took over as Provost during Conant's extended period of service in Washington, but because he took over as Dean when Conant's relations with the Faculty were distinctly strained--following an explosion over tenure appointments that had not been patched up in the five years between the "revolt of the Faculty" and Buck's appointment...
Under the present arrangement, there is very little the President can do directly to promote policy changes. The General Education program, perhaps the classic Presidential achievement, required a special committee, two years of meetings, a book, three years of negotiations, and finally came out under the aegis of Buck as much as Conant. If this was the result of Conant's occasional absence from town, it was also the fruit of the total responsibility for the Faculty held by the Dean. The President was not sufficiently in contact with the Faculty simply to create the program; he had to resort...
There has been, naturally, interest shown in real estate around Middleburg since the First Family's occupation, but there are few additional places on the market. There is little temptation among millionaires to sell for a quick buck. They came for fox hunting and horse breeding, and do not intend leaving. Their feeling is that everything will be back to normal in four years...