Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...provinces, where the Communist pressure has been heaviest in recent months, and that at least one division is needed in the populous Mekong Delta (there are now only two U.S. brigades there), where the war is more or less stalemated. Another divi sion would come in handy in the central provinces above Saigon. Westmoreland's goal is, as he puts it, "to maintain more pressure on more places...
...enhancement to music. He recently lectured the Monterey Pop Festival audience, chiding them for being stoned while listening to his music, which he claims should be sufficient to turn them on. Timothy Leary, a former Harvard psychologist who coined the "Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out" slogan central to hippie philosophy, was once a major guru but has lately fallen into disfavor with a large majority of hippies, who feel that he is trying too hard to "put his trip" on everyone...
...Central to the drug scene is marijuana, the green-flowered cannabis herb that has been turning man on since time immemorial. Virtually every hippie uses it-sometimes up to three times a day. Known as khif or hashish in the Middle East, bhang or ganja in India, ma in China, maconha or djama in South America, pot, grass, boo, maryjane and tea in the U.S., it is ubiquitous and easily grown, can be smoked in "joints" (cigarettes), baked into cookies or brewed in tea ("pot likker...
...revolution, and he sent so-called "work teams" into the provinces to build up his following among the party's rank and file. Last summer, while Mao was on a trip to southern China, Liu's faction called an emergency meeting of the party's Central Committee to try to vote Mao out of power. But Mao got wind of the meeting and managed to have it postponed until his return. Then he declared all-out war on Liu. Red Guard cartoons began depicting the gaunt, grey President as licking the boots of American imperialists; wall posters...
...stave off a threatened loss of accreditation, the trustees of Iowa's Parsons College last week voted to fire the man responsible for its growth from near bankruptcy to a booming, 4,900-student campus: President Millard Roberts. The action was intended to placate the powerful North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, which voted to lift Parsons' accreditation by June 30 for financial mismanagement and relaxed academic standards (TIME, April...