Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defilers of the mind, and desiccators of the spirit. In his plays he waged an inexorable assault on the timid frauds, the sick souls, and audaciously exposed social dry rot. Integrity was his dramatic Excalibur. The profound irony of The Wild Duck is that it unflinchingly examines the human havoc that can result from so ruthless a devotion to honesty...
...recording (he is bound to have or to hate the Callas version of Tosca you have chosen). One ready but unfortunate way to avoid such pitfalls is the all-purpose gift. And even here, care should be taken; the generally safe basket of gourmet food may play havoc with a dieter...
...success, The Homecoming, and Peter Weiss's The Investigation, a courtroom documentary about Nazi war crimes. Dinner at Eight, the 1932 collaboration of George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, will be served once again, this time with so many stars (Robert Burr, Ruth Ford, Arlene Francis, June Havoc, Walter Pidgeon, among others) that the cast is to be billed alphabetically and refereed by Sir Tyrone Guthrie. (Explaining his first Broadway directing job since he left for the Minnesota Theater Company in 1960, Guthrie says: "No one is averse to making money.") Meanwhile, the itinerant Association of Producing Artists, which...
When he takes office Aug. 6, Barrientos may find that being a civilian President is far tougher than being a military strongman. Though his F.R.B. holds 100 of Congress' 129 seats, the front is badly split, which could endanger his legislative program. And it is out of such havoc that Bolivia's coups are made. Having made one himself, Civilian Barrientos is prepared for the worst. "If the government does not work," he shrugged to reporters on election clay, ''the military should intervene...
...havoc of bombs and battle in Viet Nam has also made a market for other supplies. South Viet Nam, in spite of the war, still exports rice to both India and Japan. In return, India has sold it irrigation pumps and sugar-mill machinery, while in other Asian countries factories are busy sewing pajamas for Vietnamese war refugees. A Korean construction firm recently won a $5,000,000 contract to dredge five Vietnamese harbors. Taiwan is contracting to ship $2,000,000 worth of two different kinds of gravel, one to be used in building runways and the other...