Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hope to break. "The violence back home the V.C. write about is true," says Negro PFC Gregory Putnam, 20, a Detroiter from an East Side storm center of last summer's rioting. "But it has nothing to do with the war." None has ventured to seek Viet Cong help. The V.C. have not, in fact, won over a single American defector, while 27,178 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese defected last year. G.I.s flatly mistrust Viet Cong promises. "I've seen enough of their brutality," says Negro Medic John Crews, "to know that the V.C. draw no color...
These projects, plus the military cost of the war, caused Bolivia to end the year with a $15 million budget deficit. To help hold down this year's deficit, Barrientos asked his Congress last month to cut his $13,000-a-year salary by 25%, and executives in the government tin company dutifully followed suit, requesting a 20% pay cut. "I hope other state agencies will do the same," Barrientos says. With the guerrilla war over, he realizes all too well that his temporary honeymoon with the tin miners and students could end any day. "We hope to better...
...breaking up such "unmanageable" units as the freshman and sophomore years of the College of Letters and Science, which has some 6,600 students, into small colleges grouped around related disciplines, each with power to hire and promote teachers. Students would sit on the key committees within departments to help shape policy and would also help evaluate the teaching of their professors. These local "constituencies" would then feed into a more representative-and entirely reorganized-student government and faculty academic senate...
Organizing beautiful women to help publicize his clients (Piper-Heidsieck champagne, Haig & Haig Scotch, Manhattan Jeweler Harry Winston) is the way Manhattan-based Obolensky makes a living. When Alexander's department store in Manhattan decided to compete with rival Ohrbach's in copying original Paris dresses, they automatically turned to Obolensky, who pulled off a smash fashion show using models named Baroness Fiona Thyssen and Princess Ira von Furstenburg. "They were such good girls to do a favor," says Obolensky...
Back from Nassau, Obolensky is now off to Paris and Rome to arrange parties for Alexander's president, Alexander Farkas; then he must fly down to Madrid to help an old pal, Angier Biddle Duke, the U.S. Ambassador to Spain, give a benefit ball for the Cancer Society. Wherever he goes, there will be entirely too many Beautiful People to round up to leave Serge much time for play. Unless what he does for a living is play enough...