Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nubile Young Girls. Titillating though the published details were, le tout Paris concentrated its gossip on the high personages reportedly involved. Almost everyone seemed to know the name of the former Cabinet minister's wife, for instance. It all stimulated memories of the "Ballets Roses" organized during the late '50s by Andre Le Troquer, at the time President of the National Assembly. Le Troquer made a habit of wrapping nubile young girls in antique carpets and delivering the bundles to aging revelers. But that was a long time past. The choicest scandal is always the present scandal...
...President is chosen by 120,000 popularly elected "basic democrats." The opposition charges that the system is susceptible to government patronage and pressure and thus tends to perpetuate Ayub's rule. If it is not abolished, the eight parties plan to boycott basic democrat elections scheduled for late this year...
...commonly called "Huklandia," an area in Central Luzon where social and economic ills create a fertile breeding ground for discontent. At the height of the insurgency in 1950-51, the Huks had an estimated 20,000 well-organized men under arms. A concerted government drive led by the late Ramon Magsaysay, then Defense Secretary, whittled that number down drastically, but did not succeed in stamping out the insurgents. To thousands of peasants, the Huks, an odd farrago of idealistic reformers, nationalists, Communists and mere bandits, are still Robin Hoods who mete out swift and bloody justice to cattle thieves...
...their own fault. Dr. Leona Baumgartner, a former health commissioner of New York City who is now at Harvard, can cite chapter and verse to show how hospitals have consistently lagged behind reality and then reacted in a "Who?me?" way. When the baby boom of the late 1940s was aborning, says Dr. Baumgartner...
...Harvard Divinity School has received a bequest of books from the late Augustine Cardinal Bea, president of the Vatican's Secretariat for Christian Unity...