Word: dition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Army broke another tie with tra dition last week, sending the traditional G.I. serial number into retirement along with the pack mule and the Sam Browne belt. From now on, new soldiers will find their civilian Social Security numbers on their dogtags instead. The switch is to accommodate the Pentagon's new centralized and computerized payroll system. The Army says that the new procedure will be easier for servicemen, who will now have only one set of numerals to remember instead...
...action shattered a 40-year tra dition of university autonomy. As armored cars rumbled onto the almost-deserted campus, several thousand sol diers fanned out and arrested the first 500 students they could find. They also seized 34 professors. When other stu dents demonstrated against the invasion, riot cops cracked down with billy clubs, tear gas and nausea gas, clapped an other 500 demonstrators into jail. Thousands of students retreated to the cam pus of the huge Polytechnic School. They were so certain that the army would invade there, too, that they put up signs reading WELCOME, SOLDIERS...
...Boston, he demonstrated with his new Piano Concerto No. 2 why it is that conductors, soloists and the public have only the kindest of words for him. He is not afraid of melo dy or tonality, and he has the courage to write in the familiar mainstream tra dition of Bartok and Prokofiev-the titters of twelve-tone, modified twelve-tone, post-Webern and electronic cliques notwithstanding. That is not to say he is old hat. Within the bounds of con ventional forms like the symphony, sonata, string quartet and concerto, Lees manages to be fascinatingly original and thoroughly contemporary...
...chemical shares sell for $10,000 apiece, and no effort is made to split them to widen ownership. Hoping to keep out of the public eye, Belgium's biggest producers of chemicals, matches, beer and sugar do not even list their shares on the Brussels Bourse. The tra dition of secrecy is stronger than the desire to attract mattress money; European companies commonly report only the skimpiest information about profits or forthcoming products. The suspicion is mutual. Many newcomers to Europe's almost affluent middle class prefer to put their money into tangible goods and real estate instead...
...devastating charm, a tough, relentless mind, an acid tongue, a militant Roman Catholi cism ? and, most important, the power of the family into which she married. She is Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, wife of President Ngo Dinh Diem's younger brother and closest brain-truster. In ad dition to acting as official First Lady for the bachelor President, she is in her own right one of the two or three most powerful people in the country and in a sense embodies all its problems...