Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South sharecropper farms to the Harlem neighborhoods, where he spent his youth and later tried his hand at professional songwriting. As a Negro, Bearden insists that there is no particular significance in the fact that so many of his subjects have been Negroes. "My subject is people. They just happen to turn out to be Negro," he says. Still, he pictures them with such special feeling and skill that their portraits have been shown in galleries across the U.S. and Europe; they are in the collections of Princeton University, Atlanta University, Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery...
...behind the optimism there was concern. "Our relief," said Oanh, "is mixed with worries about what will happen to us in the future." There was the inevitable fear that a bombing halt might lead to a rapid pullout of U.S. troops, followed by capitulation to the foe. Some of the 200,000 Vietnamese civilians on American payrolls were beginning to worry about their jobs...
...both countries to take unspecified action if either one is attacked in territories under Japanese administration. It is scheduled to be reviewed in 1970, and either nation can withdraw from the pact by giving a year's notice of such a decision. What is much more likely to happen is that neither Washington nor Tokyo will do anything -in which case the pact will remain automatically in effect...
Alpine Tracings. Sturge-Weber babies are not the only ones who suffer epileptoid seizures of this type. Their cases happen to be the most severe and rapidly progressive, making it imperative that the neurosurgeon operate in infancy. Much more common are cases in which there is no clear warning signal at birth. The seizures begin a few months later and gradually become more frequent and severe. In such cases the cause is brain damage, but not as the result of birth injury. The damage may be the result of infection or biochemical poisoning during gestation and may appear as scarring...
...move had all but ended black-market manipulations in the old MFCs. But what of the new scrip? Within 48 hours after C-day, it was selling on Saigon's black market at the familiar rate of 140 piastres to the dollar. "Now that the switch has happened," explained one speculator, "we know it won't happen again for some time...