Word: ens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chou En...
...voice vote both houses last week slammed through minor bills en masse. Probing questions about important legislation were often brusquely slapped down. When the week began, only seven of 13 annual appropriations bills had been passed; when it was over, all had been hustled through the assembly line. On one key measure, the Senate voted in the absence of 30 members, most of whom had left to fight home-state campaign battles. Lamenting the proportionate absence of deliberation on the Senate floor, Vermont Republican George Aiken remarked: "I've never seen the Senate act more irresponsibly...
...despite a few far-sighted reformers, remains a bulwark of the ancien regime. As a result, a new church, the Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ), is making inroads: since its founding in 1914 by an uneducated Manila hatter, it has acquired 3,000,000 members, who voted en bloc last year for Ferdinand Marcos...
...grasp. The Americans from their hilltop positions control all the major corridors to the south. The North Vietnamese, says one high-ranking Marine officer, are "no better at running these damned hills than we are, and they don't know the country any better. Once they commit themselves en masse down one of these draws, we can bomb them and shell them night...
Denis Hillier, a middle-aged spy looking forward to retirement, embarks on his last mission: to kidnap a turncoat British scientist named Roper, who is cooking rocket fuel for Russia. Adventures both sexual and gastronomic occur en route, for Hillier is a gluttonous satyr. Men die bloodily, some of them propelled into the hereafter by Hillier himself. The mission fails, not for want of Hillier's trying, but because his quarry refuses to go back...