Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Referendum Demand. At first the three leaders seemed to ignore ill omens. Next morning at Malacanang Palace, Sukarno said he had gone to bed early. Then he winked, "But that doesn't mean I went to sleep early." Macapagal and the Tunku roared with laughter. Getting down to business, the three leaders swiftly approved the principle of a loose association of the future Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia, to be known, by syllabic fusion, as Maphilindo. But then came the blow from Sukarno, who has long opposed Malaysia, has only lately and reluctantly accepted the idea. Sukarno insisted...
...relief. In three jammed galleries of Buenos Aires' red-and-gold Chamber of Deputies, spectators embraced, cheered, waved handkerchiefs, then spontaneously broke into Argentina's national anthem. The capital's vote was in, and a few hours later, countrywide returns made it official: Dr. Arturo Umberto Illía, 63, was Argentina's new President-elect, after polling 270 electoral votes-31 more than the majority he needed. Finally, it seemed, Argentina was a nation again...
...Ill-Timed Rift. For a time, with typical Mideastern ambiguity, the Baathists had tried to avoid openly attacking Nasser. After crushing the July 18 uprising of pro-Nasser army officers. Syria cautiously avoided publicly blaming Nasser. Even while executing 27 Nasserite rebels, the Syrian leaders still said they wanted to forget the past and intended to keep on working for union. But last week, faced with Nasser's blast, they finally insisted on their innocence and Nasser's guilt in killing hopes of Arab unity...
Chasing the Men. After the fiasco, Russian Coach Gabriel Korobkov mildly suggested that some U.S. athletes seemed to be in need of "a good training." He undoubtedly meant a good spanking. Serenely overconfident, the U.S. men were ill-prepared for the ruggedness of the competition. The U.S. girls logged more time playing cards in the hotel lobby than they did practicing on the track, more time chasing the U.S. men than chasing the Russian women. They refused to take orders, lounged around listening to records, complained loudly about their rooms, their food and, oddly enough, about the fact that...
...School should in no way try to restrict their operations. During the past three years Harvard has refused to permit only one program, and that was because it would have led to religious discrimination. Only one speaker, Pete Seeger, has been barred in recent years, and that ill-considered action was reversed after heavy protest. Last spring the University even permitted one of its rooms to be used for a meeting protesting the dismissal of Dr. Richard Alpert from the Faculty for violating a University rule in his psilocybin research...