Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American revolts are a hazard to TIME because they usually seem to happen on the weekend, after we go to press, but this one came in plenty of time for thorough coverage. What is more, Hemisphere Editor George Daniels, in Rio on a previously planned trip, was ready and eager to help Bureau Chief John Blashill and his staff during 37, mostly sleepless, hours of reporting. The coup started just as the moving men arrived to relocate TIME'S Rio quarters, and while the new office was a shambles, its balcony provided a magnificent view of the massed anti...
...Turning hopefully to Holland, Indonesia last year resumed diplomatic relations, which had been broken in 1960 during Sukarno's noisy, successful cam paign to oust the Dutch from West New Guinea. The trade-minded Dutch, who are more interested in new profits than in salvaging old concessions, were eager to do business again. Last fall the Dutch signed agreements to help merchandise Indonesian rubber, coffee, copra and tea - all of which had piled up on the docks since Djakarta's anti-Malaysia campaign cut off its trade with Singapore, Indonesia's traditional marketing center...
...Elaine Dundy. The author of The Dud Avocado turns out another funny novel on the very same theme: the trials of a pretty, eager American girl trying to get into the snobbish London social orbit...
...again. With the United Nations' peacekeeping force due to pull out in three months, Premier Cyrille Adoula's shaky government needs all the help it can get. And with 60,000 Belgians still living and working in the Congo (compared with 100,000 before independence). Brussels is eager to re-establish political and military influence...
...Crimson sailing team faces the new season with more hope than confidence. Still crippled by the talent vacuum created by last year's graduation, the team must rely on the untested abilities of an eager bunch of sophomores...