Word: happen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saigon or in the U.S., in the rice fields or in the Pentagon-stand still another coup in South Viet Nam? Obviously, the answer was no. But last week the little country hovering between tragedy and farce produced two coups in one, and any number of others might happen next. Things had reached the point where talking about "strongmen" in South Viet Nam was ridiculous; no one was strong. As for that other favorite cliche, "the man of the hour," could anyone really last an hour any more...
...went on without the endorsement of the Hartford, Conn., Courant. Offended by the comic strip's pejorative attitude toward mental institutions and mental health, Courant Publisher John R. Reitemeyer suspended Annie for two weeks-"until she stopped preaching." After all, said Reitemeyer, nothing like that could happen in Connecticut, where "you just can't be railroaded" into a mental institution. Reitemeyer was also concerned about the effect on readers: "It would disturb people with relations in mental institutions, and it might even deter some who need treatment from going into an institution...
Orphan Annie's creator, Harold Gray, was unbothered: "I'm not crusading. I'm doing a script. I know some editors are writing editorials saying it couldn't happen in their states. But it can be done. The main thing is that I had to get Daddy Warbucks into a jam. This is a believable...
...baby appears normal and goes home from the hospital promptly, it is more likely that aunts and other relatives, along with the mother's friends in the childbearing age range, will drop in to coo over him. If any of them have not had German measles and happen to be at the beginning of pregnancy, a long-forgotten infection might start a whole new dangerous cycle...
...extent of popular control inherent in this provision became clear during the meeting. Skolnik, who had not then been elected, asked what would happen if the necessary two-thirds of the active members approved an amendment unacceptable to the faculty directors of the Loeb...