Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nguyen Cao Ky is more likely to attempt a coup than to resign, although neither course seems very likely at the moment. He probably believes that time is his best ally. He wants to change his image, move away from the Americans, and mold a thoroughly nationalist look designed to appeal to the masses and the younger generation; in short, to transform the flashy, daredevil flyboy into a sort of Uncle Nguyen-an antiCommunist, anti-Western and South Vietnamese patriot...
...only omission in what Wicker candidly calls an "imaginative reconstruction" of two tragic presidencies. Author of six published novels, Wicker is too prone to select the facts that intensify his drama. He scarcely mentions Kennedy's exciting effect on the national mood and his great coup in the Cuban missile crisis. Wicker almost totally overlooks at least the possibility that Johnson's war policy may be ultimately vindicated. The result is a persuasive book-but one that ignores the fact that history has a way of redeeming the actions of Presidents whose contemporaries were too quick to call...
...followers, who are far more fretful than Thieu about the U.S.-North Vietnamese negotiations in Paris. Ky, in fact, was off in Nha Trang when Thieu changed Premiers last week, a fact that led Saigon's hyperactive gossip mills to conclude that Ky might decide to plot a coup against Thieu in retaliation...
...over the entire report. Present Federal aid to education is now geared to developing new "centers of excellence" around the country, and the report seems to assume that the current financial squeeze on established private college is going to get worse. With its final paragraph, the report delivers the coup de grace to the notion that Harvard can be universally excellent: "The Committee recommends that the Faculty concentrate upon a limited number of areas in which it can provide top-quality leadership rather than seek to achieve a full spectrum of appointments in every department and academic specialty. Given financial...
...Bigger. Wood's coup, and others to come, earned him Sears's presidency in 1928, its chairmanship in 1939, and promised Sears unchallenged retailing superiority for decades ahead. In the years between Wood's arrival and his retirement next week from the company's board at 88 (he gave up the chairmanship in 1954), Sears has grown from a rural mail-order house doing a $200 million-a-year business to a vast corporation with sales of more than $500 million a month. Its 50-state organization includes 809 full-line stores, 1,731 smaller catalogue...