Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NORMA O'CONNELL LARGER Evanston, Ill...
...short stature (5 ft. 4 in.), expressionless and aloof, Diem seldom stirred from his palace. Though devoted to raising the living standards of the peasants, Diem was ill at ease among the people and uninterested in grass-roots opinion. In the 1930s, Diem had quit as a minister under the French because, he said, "we had to have democratic reforms, or it was clear even then that the Communists would win." In the 1960s, that was the line the U.S. took with Diem, but now he argued that ordinary standards of democracy could not apply in a country fighting...
...tactic has been to convince as many people as possible that some sort of scandal was imminent if the attitudes persisted. His campaign was a perfect example of the self-fulfilling prophecy: the "Harvard Sex Scandal" now in the news resulted directly and solely from the Dean's own ill-advised allusions to shadowy "incidents" and "wild parties...
...party--a coming-out affair given by Mr. and Mrs. Donald Leas for their daughter, Miss Fernanda Wanamaker Weather-ill--developed into a frenzied free-for-all in the early hours of the morning of Sept. 1. At 6:30 a.m. more than 100 of the party's 800 guests marched with a twist band to a neighboring mansion which had been rented by the Leas...
This purpose was ill served by the phrases which cried "Scandall" in Dean Monro's letter. His waving the bloody shirt triggered a press scandal which has confused discussion. Taken out of context, phrases like "license to use the college rooms for wild parties or for sexual intercourse," "unrestricted sexual behavior," and "closer and closer to outright scandal," are simply inflammatory. They suggest wrongly that wild parties run rampant and Harvard; Harvard students know how rare such parties...