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...arranged in the usual haphazard way that Laotians get things done. The Royal Army insisted on meeting in no man's land near a village called Ban Vang Ky. As a point of pride, the Communist Pathet Lao demanded rather that the two sides meet at Ban Namone. Instead, a Royal Army lieutenant colonel and a Pathet Lao major ran into each other near a place called Ban Hin Heup and agreed to come back next day with some white flags and aides. They did, and agreed to a "theoretical and provisional" ceasefire, leaving the details imprecise. Nonetheless...
...Author McGinley is also a fellow Catholic, devoted to heavily Catholic Larchmont. In / Know a Village, she has celebrated its charms: It looks haphazard to the shore...
...economic growth" and nudge the rest toward that goal. The worst lay in Kennedy's verdict that the U.S. foreign aid program, after having passed out a walloping $85.8 billion in 15 years* is now one big mess-"bureaucratically fragmented, awkward and slow, its administration diffused over a haphazard and irrational structure" with "weaknesses that have begun to undermine confidence in our effort both here and abroad...
...course of this rather haphazard series of essays, Galbraith provides some comments relevant to Goldwater, Bowles and, in particular, the 1960 campaign. Since Galbraith comments have a way of standing on their own, it may be sufficient to merely quote a few that seem particularly...
Perhaps the haphazard character of these early courses explains the lack of historical records. Classes were not then unless sufficient demand existed--and with relatively little publicity and no academic credit for the courses, command and was naturally low. In 1884 and 1885, elementary chemistry was the only summer instruction offered at the University. (Thus, Chem 1, started in 1873, has the longest continuous record of any Summer School Class). 1886 to 1887, Botany, Elementary Chemistry, and Geology constituted the entire offering...