Word: frontality
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...From now until the general election, New Jerseyites are due for a frontal assault from a determined, politically canny young man. In a state where Eisenhower swept through such traditional Democratic strongholds as Hudson County last year, Forbes will lose no chance to remind voters that he was an original Eisenhower man. Although Forbes is a millionaire, and editor and publisher of conservative Forbes' business magazine, founded by his father,* he is an all-out modern Republican on the hustings. He combines a talent for extemporaneous debate with thorough knowledge of political and economic affairs gleaned from heavy reading...
...medical history. Despite revolutionary progress in all surgery during the '30s-thanks to improved anesthesia and transfusion techniques plus antibacterial drugs-older surgeons still recoiled from the heart. Younger men braved its defenses; with rare exceptions heart surgery is still dominated by young men. After the first premature frontal attacks-nearly all patients died -the pioneers began to close the ring around the heart by working on the nearby great vessels: as one of them puts it, "circling for a landing...
When a photograph of the University appears in a publication, it usually shows a view of Dunster House from the other side of the Charles (above). For, with its entire frontal exposure overlooking the river and the Weeks Bridge, Dunster ranks as one of the the prettiest spots in the University...
Cause of Cholon's unwonted somberness was a frontal assault by South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem on a problem common to all Southeast Asian nations: the threat posed by unassimilated colonies of overseas Chinese. In South Viet Nam, where they make up only one-tenth of the population, Chinese control nearly two-thirds of the economy. Though many come from families that have been in the country for centuries, almost none have taken out Vietnamese citizenship...
...Ivan Serov, lately notorious in Hungary (see FOREIGN NEWS), set up headquarters in Warsaw in 1944, he realized that the NKVD was for the first time operating in a country with a Catholic majority. He favored a gradual undermining of the Church's position rather than a direct frontal attack, picked a Polish political adventurer named Boleslaw Piasecki to lead a group of "progressive," i.e., proCommunist, Catholics. Piasecki had learned the tricks of his trade as an agent for Mussolini and later for the Gestapo, had organized shock troops to liquidate Red partisans in Poland. Picked...