Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Waldorf-Astoria dinner of the Weizmann Institute, which has created 46 new fellowships in memory of John Kennedy-one for each year of his age. He told the diners that the U.S. has offered to cooperate with Israel in finding a way to convert salt water to fresh water with atomic energy. But Johnson's mind was more on the water problems of Guantanamo Bay, and Aide Jack Valenti repeatedly rushed to the dais with the latest intelligence reports...
...expected, Ghana voted overwhelmingly to convert to a one-party "socialist" state. Also as expected, the final returns were no sooner in last week than Dictator Kwame Nkrumah embarked on a fresh purge of his opposition and a stepped-up campaign against...
...aggression," while Cuba's men at the U.N. stormed about a new confrontation as dire as the 1962 mis sile crisis. In reprisal, Castro shut off the water that Cuba has been supplying to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in eastern Cuba. Guantanamo's fresh water comes from a pumping station on the Yateras River four miles from the base, is paid for by the U.S. at the rate of $14,000 a month. The Cubans have kept the pumps going without interruption, even during the Bay of Pigs invasion and the missile crisis...
...spot the U.S. has been watching most closely, though, is South Viet Nam-and there was some question whether Washington has been seeing straight. Last September Defense Secretary McNamara returned from Saigon and said that the war was slowly being won. After November's coup, Washington took a fresh look, concluded that the war effort would surely have collapsed if the junta had not taken over...
...keeping with the Review's official policy, the University community has supplied the material for most of the issue. Theoretically, this material, coming as it does from such a fertile intellectual source, should contain the fresh viewpoints of active researchers or policymakers. But for Harvard East Asian scholars travel to the Chinese mainland remains a forbidden luxury. Perhaps the staleness of the Review's issue on China comes primarily from the second-hand quality of most of its articles...