Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon's announcement brought to 110,000 the number of troops scheduled to be removed by next spring. A few critics said that his pace was too slow, others that it was entirely too fast-but there were not too many complaints from either side. The new withdrawal left Nixon slightly behind the timetable he had hoped to beat-former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford's estimate that 100,000 men could be pulled out by no later than the end of 1969. But in Nixon's view, the move served a more important purpose. It helped...
...lost a bundle on a Panamanian nag that had the nerve to finish fifth in a field of twelve. Then, back in Panama City, a couple of colonels tried to make it a daily double by turning him out of office in a countercoup. The result, within 48 fast-moving hours, was a counter-countercoup, something that not even Panama has experienced before...
...theologians are hardly alone in recommending the rediscovery of joy to a new generation of believers. In fact, the emphasis on the Dionysian element in life-celebration, song, dance, laughter-is fast acquiring a theology of its own. In The Feast of Fools, Harvey Cox presents Christ as clown and Christianity as comedy, because the world "should not be taken with ultimate or final seriousness." Theologian Sam Keen, 38, pleads a similar case in Apology for Wonder. While he believes that "the wise man is a dancer," he insists that the "authentic" man temper his ecstasy with a sense...
Move Them Up Fast. He will be a contrast to his predecessor, Rudolph A.. Peterson, who has reached the mandatory retirement age of 65. Peterson is gregarious; Clausen is reserved. In conversation, Clausen uses few gestures and speaks to the point without small talk, though an occasional boyish grin prevents his manner from seeming cold. He plans his day carefully during the half-hour morning train ride from his home in suburban Hillsborough, gets into the office by 8 o'clock. He says he makes decisions by listening carefully to all the facts that subordinates present and then...
...through a succession of lending jobs, many of them involving the financing of corporate mergers and takeovers. Clausen owes his big promotion partly to the fact that he is eleven years younger than his chief rival, Executive Vice President Clarence Baumhefner. The bank has been moving up young executives fast, a trend that Clausen has helped to further. Though he usually lunches with customers, he saves a couple of lunches a month to become better acquainted with younger managers. "The managers of tomorrow will be far younger than the managers of today," he says. "This is not a matter...