Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unable to penetrate the main chancery, the V.C. commandos ran aimlessly through the compound, firing on everything they saw. Meanwhile, small groups of Marines and MPs began arriving outside the walls of the embattled embassy. The Viet Cong burst into the embassy's consular building and various other buildings in the compound, but the Americans on the scene threw such heavy fire at them that the guerrillas were kept too busy to set off their explosives...
...Burst of Communications. Bowing to the inevitable, more and more journalism schools are offering courses or majors in broadcasting, advertising and public relations. Boston University's School of Public Communications has 230 undergraduate majors in public relations, 200 in broadcasting and film, only 170 in journalism. The Columbia Graduate School of Journalism is rare in that it offers no course in advertising or public relations and discourages students from going into those fields. On the other hand, it boasts one of the most extensive broadcasting facilities of any school, with radio and TV studio, editing and screening rooms under...
...status be transformed into political leverage? I doubt it. Perhaps if pro stars like Bill Russell or Willie Mays were to refuse to compete in their sports until some particular bit of civil rights progress had been made and their white teammates joined them, then there might be a burst of pressure to effect the change. The city fathers of Boston or San Francisco might be willing to cooperate. But how many Americans care who wins the 440-yd. hurdles in Mexico City? There will be a few wails of wounded patriotism, if the Soviets win more medals than...
...that a Communist battalion of 600 men tried to cross the border into his country from Laos and that two more Communist battalions were poised on the border at Nan. The Thais, faced with the growing Communist insurgency threat in the Northeast, tend to over-react somewhat to any burst of Communist military activity in Laos. The battalions may consist of Thai insurgents slipping back home after training in North Viet Nam and trying to cross the border in small units. Whatever they are, however, they constitute a threat that is bound to make the Thais more nervous, and even...
...summer, Washington concluded that the economy was rebounding with inflationary speed. Chairman Gardner Ackley of the White House Council of Economic Advisers predicted that "a strong revival of demand" would be led by a burst of spending for factories and durable goods. It wasn't. Spotty profits kept businessmen cautious about expansion. Their borrowing served partly to pay off old loans and replenish coffers depleted by the 1966 money squeeze and the spring speedup in corporate tax collections; most of all, it reflected wide expectation that the Reserve Board might tighten up on credit or that the Government would...