Word: dismalness
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...Saigon and the government has tried to make the camp a showcase for its refugee program. An Loi also benefits from volunteer doctors, nurses and students who have pitched in to help. But for the 13,000 refugees who live there, it would be hard to find a more dismal way-stop on a journey seemingly without end. The camp is filled to four times its capacity; when no more people could possibly be crammed into the 30 dormitory-style buildings, the government set up 150 army tents. The canvas tents have no plumbing, and the floors are bare earth...
Four years have changed all that, though. Harvard's last-place effort at the 1968 games at Mexico and dismal American showings in annual international competitions since then have signalled trouble for the U. S. eight at Munich next September. The competition there will be overwhelming. Defending world champion New Zealand, which upset a powerful East German group at Copenhagen last year. West Germany, victors in 1960 at Rome and still formidable. Australia. The Soviet Union. A brilliant, and, some say, invincible field...
...paid much attention to Rhode Island, where a meager 48,088 out of some 500,000 eligible voters turned out. McGovern won it with 41%, despite the state Democratic leaders' longstanding commitment to Ed Muskie. Humphrey again finished third, this time behind Muskie. Humphrey had wound up a dismal third in his favorite kind of state, Michigan, the week before. His campaign aides know that California could become Hubert's last hurrah unless he finds a way to stop McGovern there...
...next several years, Washington's economic managers face a dismal three-way choice: raise taxes severely, slash federal spending brutally, or countenance rapid inflation. That is the hard conclusion of a major new study of federal finance by the Brookings Institution, the nation's most prestigious private economic think tank. Release of the study last week immediately sharpened a basic campaign debate over the issues of how much social service Americans should expect from the Federal Government and how heavily they should be taxed to pay the bills...
...Crimson track team this year's 1-2 record, a second place finish at the GBC's and a dismal seventh at the Heps, might be too disappointing to take. But, as in football and swimming, a win over Yale "makes" a season, and the spirit and togetherness that have been the missing ingredients during this problem-filled Spring could mean the difference between winning and losing on Sunday. "We've started and stalled as often as a woman driver," coach Bill McCurdy said yesterday. "It depends completely on whether we can come together as a team...