Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just before Christmas, the leadership crisis was finally tossed to the party's Central Committee. Novotný and his followers futilely tried to stall the inevitable with a filibuster, reportedly attempted to manipulate the militia to help maintain him in authority. Professor Ota Sik, 48, whose new economic model for Czechoslovakia (TIME, Nov. 11, 1966) fell victim to Novotný's apparatchiki, rose before the plenum and made particularly strong denunciations of the old guard-until he was hospitalized with the grippe. By the end of that week, the question was not longer whether Novotný would remain...
...other ways. Last week Bolivia's President René Barrientos Ortuño offered to trade him for an anti-Castro hero now imprisoned in Cuba, and Debray himself let it be known that he had been saved from execution by none other than the U.S.'s Central Intelligence Agency...
...Message to My Friends," smuggled out to Paris' Le Nouvel Observateur, Debray said that three days after his capture in central Bolivia, his life seemed doomed. "I was in very bad shape," wrote Debray, "and the excitement of the officers who were venting their anger on me, with no precise goal in mind, had reached its peak." They were "amusing themselves," said Debray, "by firing between my legs and as close to my head as possible." Then along came some Spanish-speaking CIA agents who "called a halt to such shenanigans, summoned a doctor and at first treated...
...Just any old barn won't do," says Jolin, who keeps a man busy roving back-country roads through central Wisconsin. Pine and hemlock are best, he has found, because the pitch between the growth rings lets them weather more beautifully. But if the barn is less than 50 years old, the wood is usually insufficiently weathered; if it is more than 100 years old, the wood is often too brittle. "Out of 30 barns, you find only five good ones," says Jolin, who reckons wastage caused by cracking and splitting on even a fine barn...
...major airports; and it boasts a scattering of private copter pads, including one for the two-state Port Authority. Mayor John Lindsay uses the fire department's East River pier or the lawn of his official residence at Gracie Mansion. Even the meadows of Central Park have been pressed into service for emergency police-helicopter landings and Lyndon Johnson...