Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hell." All five major parties are involved in Krishna Menon's re-election fight in North Bombay. In an unlikely coalition, the Swatantra, Jana Sangh, and Praja Socialist parties are backing Jiwatram Bhagwandas Kripalani, 74, a lean, acerbic former Congress Party president who fell out with Nehru, formed the Praja Socialists in 1951, is now an independent. To combat this alliance, Bombay's Communist Party has put its organization at the disposal of Congress Candidate Menon: Menon's defeat-or even a narrow victory-would be the most dramatic repudiation of Nehru's aggressive socialism...
...Segal and Mr. Raposo he new Harvard generation may move into Broadway as authoritatively as its predecessors swarmed into Washington." The New Yorker called the show "a refreshing musical comedy" with its beater critic Edith Oliver adding. "What found irresistible was the music--sometimes like early, what-the-hell Dodgers, sometimes like early happy-go-lucky Loesser, sometimes like a parody of later inspirational Rodgers...
...talked about the drive a lot, but what's happened? There's someone off running the damn thing, as usual," a member of the opposition grumbled. Prophesied a representative from the dormitory most strongly critical of the fund campaign: "We're going to have one hell of a time collecting money from Whitman...
...AUTOS. Says American Motors Corp.'s William S. Pickett, executive vice presi dent of A.M.C. Export: "If some indus tries can't make a go of it, why in hell don't they get out of business? With fewer restrictions, trade in general would be more competitive, and it would no longer be necessary to spend millions to set up foreign subsidiaries." ∙STEEL. "Our industry has survived com petitive situations before," says one big steel executive. "Although this is a tough predicament, we can do it again by pro viding better quality, better service...
From a Kafka Hell. The mystique of the paratrooper, says Author Lartèguy, was born in the Kafka-like hell of Communist prison camps in Viet Nam after the fall of Dienbienphu. Like U.S. soldiers captured in the Korean war, the French were subjected to intensive brainwashing-but with vastly different results. The paratroop officers made a calculated decision to embrace the "political fiction" of the camp. They signed petitions condemning capitalism, accused themselves of monstrous crimes, made a noisy show of repentance, and even wrote a "progressive" hymn in which each word had a double meaning. They answered...