Word: following
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This week our editors at last have news for Patty and all the other put-down artists who forever undermine Charlie's ego. Charlie indeed makes the cover. It is his due. The Peanuts chronicle has become world famous, and its harried nonhero is beloved by all who follow his tribulations...
McCone's will be a tough act to follow. Taking over from Director Allen Dulles, whom President Kennedy dumped after the Bay of Pigs disaster, McCone has steadily and quietly rebuilt confidence in the CIA and its sensitive role. Under his direction, the agency's performance in alerting Washington to the Russian missile buildup in Cuba in the fall of 1962 was flawless. Before the 1963 coup against South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem, the CIA correctly predicted the coup, also warned against the internal strife that would follow. Last Sept. 17 McCone flatly predicted...
What was happening? Were the Viet Cong finally being hurt by the air strikes? Or were they merely regrouping for harder and deadlier actions in the weeks to come? No one could say, but the Viet Cong follow Mao Tse-tung's combat-tested guerrilla formula: retreat in the face of superior force, choose your own time and place for battle, and cultivate patience as if it were rice...
...Again? Ceylon's new chief is a Cambridge graduate whose hobbies are photography and growing orchids. He has twice served as Prime Minister, and said he would follow a "truly nonaligned" foreign policy which, observers thought, would lean toward the West. At home, Senanayake will probably move slowly in denationalizing industry, but he does hope to compensate U.S. and British oil companies whose facilities were expropriated...
...Though widely popular, Senanayake lacks political cunning and physical toughness. These qualities, however, are found in his deputy leader of the U.N.P., J. R. Jayewardene, who has been named Minister of State and No. 2 man in the Cabinet. As for imperious Madame Bandaranaike, she is now free to follow her own prescription and become a homebody. When she was Prime Minister she once snapped to a critic of her government, "I don't have to listen to anyone's complaints. I can always quit this and go home to take care of my children...