Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sections. In a conversation with a reporter for the New York Times, Prince Souvanna admitted that the Lao tian armed forces (composed of Royalists and neutralists) are too small and weak to interfere with this massive Red force. Even so, Laos does not want U.S. or any other Western help in the matter, "because this would mean more war for Laos, which has known little else since 1939." He said that all that Laos could do was already being done: daily bombing runs by the Laotian air force against traffic using the trail. What concerned the Premier more...
...Tulsa traffic cop called it the biggest traffic jam since Dick Nixon's 1960 campaign visit. Close to 25,000 people -in 10,000 cars-turned out when Evangelist Billy Graham, 48, came to town to help fellow evangelist and millionaire, Oral Roberts, 49, dedicate his new Oral Roberts University, whose philosophy of education is "to develop the mind, the body-and the soul." Set on a 450-acre campus in suburban Tulsa, the modernistic school already has an enrollment of 546 students, mostly children of Oral Roberts' "Pentecostal Holiness" followers. And Gra ham predicted a vast spread...
...many. The search for a "cure," therefore, is a search for many cures; researchers must pursue clues in every conceivable direction. Last week's news of the pursuit involved viruses-plus additional confirmation that oral contraceptive pills have not only been acquitted of causing cancer but actually help prevent one form in certain cases...
...some of the other substitutes sounded like sweet young office secretaries or shipping clerks trying to be discovered. For compensation, there was a sense of humor about it all. Public Affairs Man ager George Heinemann, who had taken over WNBC-TV's evening weather shows, couldn't help looking like an elderly but appealing high school boy hauled up to the front of the classroom for a recitation. NBC Radio's spot announcements were peppered with statements like, "WNBC, the station that never strikes out," while ABC Radio proclaimed that "more of the pickets you want...
Shifting the Burden. David Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan bank, airing its views in its bimonthly "Business in Brief" bulletin, suggested that the nation make it "unmistakably clear that in a crisis" the U.S. would cease selling gold. Such a policy, the bank contended, would help shift to European countries "the burden of decision regarding the defense of the dollar"-a move that