Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whoever the united left puts forward to oppose de Gaulle's choice for a successor, there is an excellent chance that he can win if the parties do not forget the lessons of this week's election. A flexible, and cooperative posture has provided them with their best electoral showing in a decade. The left has proved that even with the President still in office his regime is vulnerable. Once de Gaulle steps down it may be impossible for him or anyone else to keep the leftists out of power...
Sophomore goalie Bill Diercks and junior Ben Smith received Honorable Mention. Diercks ranked second in the league in goals with 203 saves and 29 goals allowed for an 87.5 percentage. The choice of Smith at defense is something of a surprise, since he played forward in all but two games...
First period goals by defenseman Bob Higgins and forward Tom Dingman and a second period goal by Bey Bigelow had given Eliot a 3-1 lead going into the final period. Following Stiles's goal, the tired Pachyderms outlasted two late Saybrook goals for the victory...
...Chinese leadership and institutions seemed remarkably cohesive and stable by 1958, within two to three years important developments were to mar this image. Early 1958 witnessed the inauguration of the Great Leap Forward, and within three years the regime's fortunes had dipped to a low point. By the winter of 1960-61, industrial, development was sharply curtailed, agriculture was in bad shape, and massive imports of foreign grain were begun (imports still continue). Moreover, a number of leaders throughout the country were purged or demoted--although none of them were nearly so important as Kao Kang. To halt...
...fifties to bring the leading local leaders to Peking as they proved their capabilities at the local levels. The trends towards specialization (i.e., functional assignments within the Party, the government bureaucracy, etc.) were also eroded during this period of reaction to the failures of the Great Leap Forward...