Word: cemented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What will happen when Ho goes? For two decades his personality has provided the cement for one of the most stable Communist regimes in the world. Unlike China, whose collective leadership around Mao averages the venerable age of nearly 70, North Viet Nam's leaders are uniformly a generation younger than Ho. No matter who succeeds Ho, Western analysts see little hope of any major change in Hanoi's tough, tenacious policy...
Trottenberg said that the planners have considered replacing the planned brick sidewalks around Mather House with poured cement sidewalks, as a money-saving change. He suggested that revision would be along similar lines...
...still a "fragile flirtation, with the West pitching most of the woo." But NATO nations are acting as if the cold war were over and could never be renewed. They are losing, says Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, NATO's Secretary-General from 1957-1961, "the cement of fear that bound them together." They tend to squabble over everything from their respective troop commitments to control of U.S. nuclear weapons...
...September-only in December." Not that Ara can expect to find any surprises in his own Christmas stocking: at week's end Notre Dame absorbed a 24-7 shellacking from Coach Johnny McKay's surprising U.S.C. Trojans, a result that could only cement U.S.C.'s claim to No. 1 and send the Irish even further down the ratings...
...Peabody & Co. and approved by the Lebanese government, the bank that was once the country's largest will be transformed into an international investment company. It will take over Intra's extensive business holdings-including thriving Middle East Airlines, Beirut's port and the Phoenicia Hotel, cement plants, warehouses, casinos, a French shipyard and valuable real estate on Paris' Champs Elysees-and try to recoup the bank's crippling losses with their future profits. As a $1,000,000-plus financial consultant, Kidder, Peabody hopes to raise $30 million to develop these and other Intra...