Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists had not done so well during Tet as they had hoped, partly through faulty coordination and communications. In fact, discouraged by their failure, his units around Saigon began drifting away from their assigned positions after Tet. As a result, the vaunted second round of attacks, originally scheduled for late February, failed to come off. Nonetheless, the allies still credit the enemy with considerable capacity for causing damage...
...Bucharest, a party commission attacked Rumania's late strongman Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who died in 1965, as a Stalinist who used terror to keep in power in the 1950s. The commission charged his regime with handing down sentences without trials, of murders, abusive arrests, "rude fakes and transgression of the most elementary rules of law." Thus, Dej's successor as party boss, Nicolae Ceausescu, paved the way for a purge of the late Dej's Stalinist cronies. The first to go was a onetime Ceausescu rival, ex-Police Chief Alexandru Draghici, who was purged from the party...
Executors of the estate of the late Edna Ferber announced that the novelist left a fortune of more than $2,000,000, willed to her sister, two nieces, her maid, and to several charities...
Instead, setting a life pattern, he drifted between such random diversions as studying Serbo-Croatian and founding a record company to preserve the music of early New Orleans jazzmen. Inevitably, as the son of the late syndicated columnist Heywood Broun, he became a sportswriter "with a crust of adjectives as thick as barnacles on a pearling lugger."* Then, at 30, bored with the "non-Aristotelian inevitability of August doubleheaders," he decided to take a fling at acting. "I brought to the stage," he recalls, "a keen sense of Thackeray, Dickens and Trollope-and none of Stanislavski...
...least active. Characteristically, the Oklahoma City publisher attended almost every session of the four-day affair and found time as well to pay a call on his newspapers' national advertising representative, George Katz, 96. The Oklahoman's only complaint: "In New York, people get to work too late and go home too early...