Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Appealing Notion. In a survey last week, TIME correspondents throughout the U.S. found that it was hard to distinguish between those Americans who want to get out of Viet Nam at any price and those who want to win the war and then get out-fast. Though the President claimed that there were "no deep divisions" over the conduct of the war, a clashing disharmony rang loud and clear the length of the land...
Those refugees who have returned, and those Arabs who remained in Israel's "New Territories," are finding that life is fast returning to normal as the Israelis demonstrate their intention to stay on. In Old Jerusalem, gone are the last remnants of the Mandelbaum Gate that stood for two decades as an ugly reminder that the Holy City was divided...
...Pantridge, it seemed silly to keep the intensive-care unit in the hospital. The thing to do, he reasoned, was to take both equipment and expertise to the patient as fast as possible; he installed the gear in an ambulance. Now, a telephone call to the Royal Victoria gets the mobile intensive-care unit to the patient's door promptly-in four out of five cases, within 15 minutes. Out step a doctor and a nurse, usually with two medical students, armed with the life-saving devices with which they give the most urgent emergency care...
Despite her "gingerbready" mannerisms, Sandy is fast becoming known as one of the most imaginative actresses around. "She'll never play a part in a conventional manner," says William Daniels, co-star of her new play, Daphne in Cottage D. "She drives the less imaginative directors up the walls." That she gets away with it doubtless reflects a growing U.S. hunger for actresses of talent rather than tinsel. But equally important is Sandy's own single-minded drive for theatrical achievement. Her background has a lot to do with it. She comes from Nebraska, and as a matter...
...duplicity. The grifter is the Flim Flam Man, a wheezy, sleazy slicker who for half a century has taken yokels with potency pills, crooked cards and his smooth Mason-Dixon line. The drifter is AWOL from Fort Bragg, and hungry. Scott proposes a merger, and the two are soon fast-shuffling their way to fortune, until the locals get wise to their brand of three-card monte and call the cops...