Word: gather
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week: 128,000), first to relieve the pressure on Vietnamese troops, then to go aggressively hunting and killing the enemy on their own from the Mekong Delta to the Viet Cong's highland sanctuaries. Phase 3 died aborning, because wherever two or three V.C. companies tried to gather, Allied planes were soon on the scene-and often enough with helilifted Allied troops not far behind...
...Glorious Records." Nearly a generation after her crushing defeat in World War II, Japan is experiencing a wave of nostalgia for "the Pacific War." Every Sunday at 9 a.m., tots around the country gather before the TV to watch "Zero Fighter Hayato" knock a dozen American P-38s or Wildcats from the skies. Plastic-model Zero fighters and picture books are bestsellers from Hokkaido to Kyushu, while adults are now reading a book called Glorious Records, which praises the wartime Burma-Siam railway project that built the bridge over the River Kwai. A new series of junior high school history...
Style is irrelevant to the good newspaperman. He fights his battles on the editorial page, with ink on paper, one dimension only. His style is not a part of his fight. He lives in the way that best enables him to maintain contacts, to gather information, to report the news. He pooh-poohs questions like which side are you on. In the battleground of Mississippi, where those words are on everybody's lips, the good newspaperman alienates half his readers with every sentence...
...hydrology. President Johnson has set up a Water Resources Council to study U.S. water needs and oversee conservation; he has set aside up to $275 million for research and the development of an economical system for converting sea water to fresh water. Scientists and industrialists from 58 nations will gather in Washington next week for the first international symposium on water desalinization. For hydrologists, who had to take a back seat during the 1957-58 International Geophysical Year, this burst of attention has led not to a year of their own but a decade...
...Washington late this month, 2,000 men from 102 countries will gather to discuss what is probably the world's most fascinating, most widely, talked about?and most misunderstood?subject: money. Ever since the ancient Lydians set up the first effective monetary system, money has been at the heart of men's lives and business, the fuel of their ambitions, the symbol of wealth and power in almost every society. It has not only made possible but helped to create the vast and complicated structure of modern civilization. Adam Smith called it "the great instrument of commerce...