Word: latterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latter, commanders in the field insist that at least 750,000 men will be required to permit the allies to seal off the South's sievelike borders and to send perhaps two divisions into the Mekong Delta, the southernmost section of the country. "Something has got to be done in the delta or you aren't going to win this war," said a high-ranking U.S. officer in Saigon. "Half the people in the country live there. We've got to control the delta, but we haven't got the men to send in there...
...Biological Sciences and the Clinical Sciences. Blocks of time will be devoted to the major organ systems and normal function and structure will be presented as well as the abnormal. This will be supplemented by instruction in the Behavioral and Social Sciences and in the Clinical Sciences. The latter will now constitute case-taking with exphasis on the skills of history-taking, and the physical examination...
Died. George P. Vierheller, 84, director of the St. Louis Zoo from 1922 to 1962, a latter-day Noah who transformed his domain from a dreary bar-and-cage animal prison into a bright parkland with moated outdoor bear pits (an idea imported from Germany), sunlit monkey houses and aviaries, and circus-style animal acts, all of which set a new style for zoos in the U.S.; of a heart attack; in St. Louis...
...Wizard of the United Klans of America, Shelton, 37, a semiliterate, ferret-faced Alabaman, failed so completely last year to cast a spell on either the TV audience or the House Un-American Activities Com mittee that he was widely tuned out by the former and charged by the latter with contempt of Congress. Specifically, the committee charged him with refusing, under subpoena, to turn over Klan records...
...chiefly for an orchestration built of conflict ing clouds of moody, often eerie thun-derbursts of sound, punctuated with enough jutting exclamations of dissonance to label it contemporary, and Conductor Thomas Schippers gave it all the fierce sweep of a Force Three hurricane. Yet it was only in the latter part of the second act and in the third that the music itself overwhelmed the stage dazzles. There alone did Barber's vocal writing transform itself into genuine opera. And so what the Met had to offer on its first night in its new quarters was a musical extravaganza...