Word: compound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Descendant of a well-to-do colonial Maryland family, Shriver does not consider himself wealthy, though he hardly has to scrimp. He rents a 30-acre estate in Rockville, Md., called "Timberlawn," just bought a house near the Kennedy summer compound in Hyannis Port for something under $200,000. As OEO director he earns $30,000, insists on better-than-average salaries for his staff- 23 top aides make more than $20,000, 40 others earn $15,000 or more. Though this has led to cracks about the "sweet smell of poverty," Shriver reasons that it takes good money...
American military police do patrol the compound and check the pass of each G.I. entering. Vietnamese girls who want to work in Disneyland must obtain a special entertainer's card and visit An Khe's clinic once a week for a medical examination by Vietnamese doctors and a U.S.-provided shot of a long-lasting penicillin-type drug to suppress disease. Forced to choose between morality and the morale of their men, the division's officers are clearly troubled by Disneyland. But, as one colonel explained, "We wanted to get the greatest good for our men with...
Gynecologist John McLean Morris and Endocrinologist Gertrude van Wagenen told the American Fertility Society that one compound has been effective in rabbits and monkeys. It causes no harmful side effects and no malformations in the newborn even when taken during pregnancy. This compound, ORF-3858 of New Jersey's Ortho Research Foundation, has not yet been approved for human trials...
...bane. With 321 Democrats in the field for local and state offices-greatest number in at least 28 years-seven Republicans and three Democrats were contesting one congressional seat. Republican Margaret Chase Smith's U.S. Senate seat is sought by two Democrats: State Representative Plato Truman and, to compound the confusion, a Portland landscape consultant named Jack L. Smith, 43. Moreover, a Democrat named Carlton Reed is challenging Republican Governor John H. Reed...
Then, abruptly, Tri Quang called the mobs off and early last week summoned the press to the ramshackle five-acre compound of buildings that comprises the Vien Hoa Dao. While his spokesmen read a statement threatening "a civil war that will take tens of thousands of lives because of the short sightedness, irascibility and irresponsibility of the present government," Thich Tri Quang, hardly a bead of perspiration blotting his unfurrowed brow in the 105° heat, silently looked...