Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Laos, there has been a buildup of the North Vietnamese forces that guard and repair the vital Ho Chi Minh Trail over which supplies are funneled to the South. The U.S. State Department last week expressed "some serious concern" over this buildup, but the government of Prince Souvanna Phouma has much more reason for concern. It reported that North Vietnamese forces had launched a "general offensive" against several government villages: Ban Nam Bac, north of the royal capital of Luang-prabang, and Lao Ngam and Phalane...
Visconti has tackled his responsibility with the same fanatical concern for factual accuracy that Richard Brooks demonstrated in making In Cold Blood (TIME, Dec. 22). He had authorities in Algiers rip up a street to lay down trolley tracks that had been there during the period of the story (1938-39), and even ordered a reprinting of cigarette packages to match those sold at the time. Visconti's film of The Stranger follows the action of the novel with hardly a comma missing-and therein lies both its strength and its weakness...
...experiment with marijuana and a harrowing LSD trip he and his wife took together-all illegal activities. The trip, Yablonsky contends, gave him "invaluable perspective" on the drug. Throughout his research, Yablonsky says, he found the possibility of arrest or being forced to reveal sources a "constant source of concern, anxiety and fear." It caused him to turn down an offer to meet "the biggest pusher in California." While such an interview might have aided his sociological insights, he figured that the need to keep the man's identity secret presented an insuperable scholarly dilemma. In the past...
Sparked by increasing concern over air pollution caused by cars with conventional internal-combustion engines, proposals for electric cars have been regularly tumbling out of Government, industry and academic research proj ects. The latest came last week, when American Motors Corp. showed off its Amitron, a three-passenger, snub-snouted electric car, at a Detroit hotel...
Their common concern, as Atlanta Appliance Dealer J. M. Harper puts it, is that the consumer may have merely "opened his fist temporarily, and after Christmas will close it again...