Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hanoi continues on its present course, the President is determined to increase U.S. military pressure as needed. The Communists, as the President observed recently, "have less to write home to mother about than I do." Just how long it will take them to grasp this homely idea is, of course, what all the talking is about...
...simply reversed the ancient practice, which allowed all-make casts only. A few of the big rotes could have stood better but that is no reason to advocate a style of writing acting; yet Jeannette Hume had a number of fine moments as Elektra. And it was a good idea for Elizabeth Scarff to portray Cassandra as insane, for this made more credible the continued disbelief of all her auditors. I do wish something had been done about the actresses' accents: Attic Greek just does not mix with a Southern United States drawl...
With victory in their grasp, the Northerners' first idea was to secede and form their own independent state. After a flurry of long-distance telephone conferences, however, and heavy diplomatic pressure from the West, they were persuaded that the backward, semiarid North would be hard put to go it alone without the natural resources of the South and the skills of the Southerners. Agreeing to one more try at nationhood, they named a 31-year-old lieutenant colonel, Yakubu Gowon, as Nigeria's new supreme commander...
...evidence that mosquitoes really bite snakes, Dr. Gebhardt has tested the idea in his laboratory, where skeptics have now seen a dozen or more mosquitoes perched on the head of a single snake, eating heartily. Unlike horses or humans, the snakes apparently suffer no discomfort and develop no encephalitis...
Overworked and Fallacious. Block has long since wearied of the fact that the guideposts hampered both management and labor, and appeared to apply more to some industries than to others. "The thing that gripes me," he said last week, "is the overworked and fallacious idea that steel is the key. Steel and a few other so-called basic industries are expected to adhere rigidly to the prevailing prices while thousands of others, many concerned with such essential elements of the cost of living as food, clothing and shelter, go their merry way and raise prices at will...