Word: happen
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...them." The fact is that while there are more than enough men to criticize U.S. policy in Viet Nam, few have spoken so clearly and responsibly as Galbraith, or searched so hard for a viable way out. "I want to change things," he says. "I want to see things happen. I don't want just to talk about them...
Still stunned by the speed and brutality of the Communists' countrywide onslaught, South Viet Nam and its allies last week began the enormous task of recovery. The job was not made easier by the fact that no one knew for sure exactly what had happened, or why; nor was there any certainty that it would not happen again. The full significance of the Communist general offensive still hung on the next move by North Viet Nam's Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap-and whether he would or would not mount an assault on the U.S. Marine position...
Lots of self-consciously kooky things happen in Sandy's kooky apartment, with its kooky metal staircase and the kooky neighbors running in and out. By the end of November, of course, the two are very much in love, but still Newley has to leave at midnight on the 30th as per agreement. Why? The truth is that she has some unspecified fatal illness and doesn't want him around "when it happens." So out he goes into the snow, while Sandy bravely and inanely tells her next client how beautiful it is going to be in December...
Magraw says Dean Ford did not consult the HUC when he formed the Student-Faculty Advisory Council. Many HUC members point to that incident indignantly as an example of the Administration's lack of respect for the organization. But the Advisory Council could be the best thing to ever happen to the HUC; it challenges the HUC's status as Harvard's student government, and the threat to its survival may force the HUC to make itself something more than a College-wide house committee...
...President declined to speculate on Red motives or on negotiations, and seemed impatient when a newsman asked about peace talks, while much of South Viet Nam was in flames. "I don't want to prophesy on what is going to happen or why," he said. "We feel reasonably sure of our strength...