Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Partial credit goes to Leverett House's hard-rock corps of Harold Pulling, Chris Mortenson, John Beaulieu, and Ric Multhaup, who earned a "good" rating with 53 of 75 right. But the overall showing boded ill for the future and neglect of the past...
Even though 70% of all Negroes are rejected by the draft because of ghetto-bred ill health or non-education, the proportion of Negro army combat troops in Viet Nam is more than double the ratio of Negroes to whites in the U.S. population at large (23% v. 11%). That, according to the Negro G.I. himself and his officers, is because those who make it into military service are the "cream of the crop"-can-do, must-win competitors who volunteer for dangerous duty both for the premium pay and the extra status it gives them. "I get my jollies...
...come over? Personal considerations-his wife had been ill for some time-unquestionably played a part. But another reason he gave U.S. authorities was his country's hardening attitude toward the American position in Viet Nam. Though Hungarian diplomats had played a key role in a short-lived effort to bring Hanoi and Washington together before and during the 1966 bombing pause, Budapest gave up all efforts to effect a settlement last fall and reportedly ordered Radványi to abandon mediation attempts. Devoutly believing in closer East-West relations, Radványi became increasingly...
...quality of the editorial product, costs must be kept down, the work force reduced, union restrictions eliminated, production fully automated. "One thing you've got to have is a modern plant," says Vincent Manno, the New York newspaper broker who brought Hearst, Howard and Whitney together for the ill-fated W.J.T. merger. "You can't spend less than $25 million and have the kind of plant necessary to put out a paper in the city of New York. A fully automated plant contemplates that the unions would permit it, and to my knowledge they never have. The newspaper...
...years directed his finely drawn barbs at such targets as F.D.R., Nazism, neutralism, Harry Truman, and whatever he considered Communist, receiving the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 for a drawing of Communism as a drooling tiger ready to pounce on newly emerging Africa; of a heart attack; in Evanston, Ill...