Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month ranging from cement to penicillin, from sheet steel to automobile tires. This effort is essential to bolster Viet Nam's war-buffeted economy, and, of course, to support the war effort. But as of last week, no one in Saigon or in Washington had any real idea of how much of that matériel had been used for its intended purpose, how much had helped to line profiteers' pockets-or, indeed, how much had wound up in Viet Cong stockpiles...
...Naval Ordnance Laboratory test last month to determine its effectiveness. They were surprised to find that the compound is almost as powerful as TNT, and the big order for Unicel was canceled-along with any future shipments to Viet Nam. Administration officials admitted that they had no clear idea of how much Unicel had already landed there-or how much had gone into saboteurs' bombs instead of sandals...
...meeting of speakers from East Germany's Communist Party and West Germany's opposition Social Democrats to debate reunification (TIME, April 15). In both East and West Germany it has become the top topic of private and public debate, even though Ulbricht probably raised the idea in the first place because he thought neither Social Democrats nor Christian Democrats would take it seriously. When the Social Democrats accepted, naming May as an appropriate time, Ulbricht imposed what would in earlier years have been insuperable conditions. He demanded public debates in both East and West Germany, with diplomatic immunity...
...were spotty, and the English health officers' faces were red. For in the industrial Midlands, less than a hundred miles from the birthplace of vaccination, no fewer than 24 Britons had come down with smallpox by last week. Both patients and health officers were lucky. They had no idea what traveler had carried the disease or where he had come from, but the smallpox proved to be the mild form, variola minor or alastrim. Only ten patients had to be hospitalized; the rest could be treated at home-with, so far, no deaths...
...much as ever, Commentary warns of the dangers abroad. "I venture the opinion that the idea 'Hate America' is now more deeply anchored in Chinese minds than 'Hate the Jew' was in German minds at any time," wrote Economist Oscar Gass in a perceptive appraisal of recent U.S.-Chinese relations. Even though he feels U.S. diplomatic recognition of Red China is the realistic thing to do, Gass cautions that the Chinese will not "jump with joy." For 13 years, he writes, the "government of China has devoted its talents to building a wall of misinformation...