Word: laing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...L.B.J. is handling the presidency-an alltime low for him and a long way from the 80% approval he enjoyed in January 1964. Viet Nam is his foremost problem, and barring either a spectacular military triumph or successful negotiations with Hanoi, a G.O.P. candidate might well argue, a la Eisenhower, that a new Administration is needed to end an unpopular war. The looming threat of inflation-"profitless prosperity" as Washington's Governor Evans calls it-is another bugaboo. The decaying cities and the exploding ghettos could develop into the biggest issue of all. Taken together, the problems are helping...
...Quebrada del Yuro, Che was loaded onto a stretcher and carried five miles to the town of Higueras. Informed of his capture, army leaders in La Paz, the capital, pondered what to do with him. Since Bolivia has no death penalty, Che, at worst, would go off to prison-perhaps only after a long, noisy trial, a propaganda outcry from the whole Communist bloc and the threat that other guerrillas might streak into Bolivia and make a cause of him. The next day, orders came down to Higueras to execute Che. He was shot two hours later...
...This House on Fire was a kind of La Dolce Vita, American style, in which guilt and inadequacy stripped away the power of a creative genius...
...works," says Sam Green. City governments and corporations are already beginning to play a similar role. Chase Manhattan Bank thinks nothing of setting aside $100,000 a year for sculpture and paintings for their banks. Sculptor James Wines has finished an ll-ft.-high piece for Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., in Nutley, N.J. In Los Angeles, Alcoa's huge new Century City complex will be complemented by a 30-ft.-long, 8-ft.-high Peter Voulkos...
Nevertheless, most of the French actors obviously dig la méthode and its group-therapy techniques. Says Strasberg: "One can sense their budding understanding." And also their growing dependence on the master. "What," wailed one French actress last week, "will we do after Lee has gone?" Maybe just pretend that he hasn...