Word: following
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effect has been to give the Poles a virtual veto on all ICC actions of consequence. The Commission cannot follow up a complaint without Polish approval, and once it gets into the field, a Pole dissent can sabotage its efforts...
...Proposition--clearly modeled after the now-famed Chicago improvisational troupes -- strenuously avoids stooping for the easy, gag-line laughs. Trying to create original situational humor, the production occasionally sacrifices a quick laugh in pursuit of something deeper, but that's the course an improvisational group must follow to be more than a cut-rate Neil Simon show. When the sought-after originality breeds laughs, then you've got a winner, and The Proposition wins more than it loses...
Almost uniquely in Viet Nam last week, it was possible to follow clearly the progression of one battle: the block-by-block struggle of the allies to recapture the city of Hué from the North Vietnamese units that swept into it two weeks ago. The North Vietnamese had arrived to stay, and students from the University of Hué acted as their guides, in some cases donning the uniform of Viet Cong regulars. As the ancient capital of Viet Nam, Hue was a prime piece of captured real estate for propaganda purposes, and the NVA fought for every inch...
That was a tough act to follow, but USSPA managed it. As Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy was addressing the group on the final night of the conference, three New Lefters arrived on the stage and started to heckle him. When he ended, six others came trooping down the aisle bearing a coffin. They overturned it, and out poured hundreds of the Senator's campaign buttons, intended, as one perpetrator explained, to be a "witness to McCarthy's impotence." Peterson, who claimed no responsibility for the mock funeral, was filled with admiration: "McCarthy kept his cool very well...
...rival, Edward N. Cole, 58, won the job that Knudsen had coveted and courted for most of his life. Cole's ascension meant not only that Knudsen's road to promotion was blocked for at least another four years; it also meant that even if Knudsen did follow Cole to the top at G.M., he would have so few years to serve before mandatory retirement at 65 that his age might deny him the chance to win the job at all. As a multimillionaire by inheritance as well as by his own labors-his 42,507 shares...