Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gingerly held out the possibility of a brief pax in hello-on the ground and in the air-over Christmas and, seven weeks later, during Tet, the Vietnamese New Year. Rusk pointedly withheld any promise of an extended unilateral truce. "We ought to distinguish," he added, "between what might happen at Christmas and the idea of a general pause." The Administration maintains that the bombing is essential since it ties down 100,000 North Vietnamese in repair work and disrupts the flow of men and matériel. By contrast, the Communists used last winter's respite to repair...
...something about radical student activities at the University of California's Berkeley campus. Liberal fears of an attack on academic freedom grew after Reagan was elected, and The New Republic printed a pithy addendum to two articles on university crackdowns in Argentina and Rhodesia that asked: "Could it happen here...
...Hara readers can confidently expect to be taken on a guided tour of a world where things happen. The language is clean and terse, and the code is more often amoral than immoral. Most O'Hara people live by the venerable adage, "If I don't do it, someone else will." Thus James Hatter has few compunctions about sleeping with his best friend's wife, and Starlet Natica Jackson even fewer about destroying a neighbor's marriage. A bitchy British countess in Hollywood sums up: "After all, everyone's naughty when the door is closed...
...beat Adams House in double overtime last Friday. Forerunner Jeff Jordan booted in the winner, what turned out to be Eliot's biggest goal of the season. The Elephants scraped up 11 men to beat doormat dudley in the first game Monday and then watched the seemingly impossible happen...
Every 33 years or so there is a chance of this happening again, when the remnants of an old comet once more pass near the earth. Calculations show that this will happen tonight...