Word: fours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Political Operation. Under the Geneva treaty, Laos is supposed to be governed by a three-way coalition, with four Cabinet seats set aside for the Pathet Lao, eleven for the neutralists and four for the rightists. From the first, it was a shaky arrangement. In 1963, the. Pathet Lao quit the government, leaving Prince Souvanna Phouma, the Premier, in command of a neutralist-royalist coalition. In 1964, the Communists drove the neutralists from the Plain of Jars and set about creating their own "neutralist" wing from a nucleus of defectors. The Pathet Lao figure that a new coalition will...
...eased at private diplomatic meetings in the town houses and apartments of New York. At one such meeting, held in U.N. Secretary-General U Thant's 38th-floor office suite at week's end, representatives of the U.S., Russia, Britain and France agreed to resume Big Four talks on the Mideast after a ten-week hiatus...
...guilt or innocence could only be properly assessed at the scene of the alleged crime? So off they trooped -judge, jury, counsel, bailiff and all -to Sacramento's Pink Pussy Kat Tavern, where Go-Go Dancer Susanne Haines, charged with indecent exposure, performed eight numbers. For four of them, she wore Exhibit J, a pair of transparent red panties; in the remaining four, she wore only her gold sandals for the full topless-bottomless effect. Said Municipal Judge Earl Warren Jr., 39, son of the retired Chief Justice: "The jury got a better look than we could have given...
...recommendation of a trustee committee headed by John W. Gardner, the board of trustees unanimously decided to seek broader viewpoints by filling two current vacancies in its ranks with faculty members from other universities. The trustees also approved a nine-man expansion of the 23-member board, including four Stanford graduates aged 35 or under, and agreed to give students and faculty voting membership on most trustee committees. If Stanford gains court approval for the required change in its founding grant, the first election of new board members will be held this year...
Down with Hypocrisy. The last bastions of separate men's and women's education are crumbling because they cen no longer find enough bright applicants willing to endure four years of monastic isolation. After Bennington announced that it was going coed, applications for this year's freshman class rose 56% over last year-despite the fact that the college's tuition had been hiked an average...