Word: infant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thailand's infant but active guerrilla war falls into the familiar pattern of Communist subversion in Southeast Asia, and has disturbing similarities to the beginning of the war in Viet Nam. Red China's Foreign Minister Chen Yi, in fact, pointedly predicted last year that the struggle in Thailand would soon start. For their launching spot, the Communists picked a remote region of Thailand that is not only backward economically (annual income is well below the $100 national average) but harbors people who are ethnically closer to the Laotians than to the Thais. Many village youths, impatient with...
When Pierre Du Pont retired from G.M.'s presidency, Sloan was his natural successor. He took over a sprawling infant that made five nonintegrated car lines, ran such supply companies as Fisher Body and United Motors with little thought of inventory control, cached its cash wherever division man agers wanted to keep it. Sloan set up a seemingly contradictory system: a committee management in which operations were decentralized, finances and policy centralized. Above it all was "Mr. Sloan," as he was always called...
...Shortly after splashing headlines last year as offscreen lovers in an unsavory divorce action, Leslie Caron and Warren Beatty pooled their talents in a sex farce. Surprisingly enough, it is an amiable, entertaining fiction and nowhere near so scandalous as life itself. As a young French widow with an infant son, Leslie oozes gamine charm in the direction of her boss, Robert Cummings, a child psychiatrist who sucks his thumb under stress. Beatty, in his first light comedy role, shows an unexpected flair for foolishness as Leslie's Greenwich Village neighbor, baby sitter and maker of stag films...
Later Fairbank pointed to infant at attempts by the South Vietnamese government to use Viet Cong police methods said: "They must have self-confident they must have an ideology, and must have cadres. This takes time, the present government has only been in a few months...
...Behind the legal protection of mineral-rights grants dating from the last century, companies have let mine debris bury trees, pollute streams with fish-killing acids, even damage homes with boulders and shale cascading down mountainsides. One woman watched in horror as a bulldozer uprooted the coffin of her infant son, sent it tumbling down the hill behind her house. Since last summer, sporadic gunfire has erupted between the angry mountaineers and the armed guards of the mine operators...