Word: impendingness
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In the north, Giap's 35,000 troops were stalemated by ARVN defenders around Hué and Quang Tri. North of the latter last week, a clever South Vietnamese marine commander simply evacuated his base after learning of an impending Communist night armor attack; when the North Vietnamese drove...
When Bernard Cornfeld's mutual-fund empire came tumbling down in a spectacular mid-1970 crash, his main company, Investors Overseas Services, sank so low that moneymen might well have figured it had nowhere to go but up. Not so. Under Cornfeld's successors, I.O.S.'s troubles...
In East Germany, as a tantalizing hint of what may be an impending cultural liberalization, Neues Deutschland, the official Communist newspaper, recently ran a waist-up picture of a nude East German girl for the first time in its 26-year history; the paper's columns are normally devoted...
Such is the scenario proposed by Professor Marinatos, the autocratic old genius of Greek archaeology, who has spent the past four summers excavating the rich Minoan town that he discovered on Santorini. The site of his dig is shrouded in rosy dust, shaded by tin-roof sheds, and shielded by...
The Chinese are clearly going out of their way to make Nixon's visit pleasant and untroubled. On the eve of the journey, China is undergoing a great wave of repainting, face scrubbing and sign switching. Slogans referring bluntly to "U.S. imperialists and their running dogs" have been replaced...