Word: marathoning
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Room at the Top. As the revolutionary glow that followed Diem's overthrow fades, South Viet Nam's generals seem to be watching each other ever more alertly. They now often wrangle over policy in marathon debates that last until 5 a.m. Bureaucracy also takes its toll of leadership. Brigadier General Le Van Kim, a top strategist, is occupied by administrative chores; last week one of his staff's chief projects was requisitioning three typewriters. Near by, General Dinh flopped back in his chair, groused that the pile of paper on his desk grows higher each...
...lucky thing he did, since number seven man Alan Terrell, plagued by a leg injury, dropped a marathon match to John Lake...
...Union Oil, Esso Argentina, Pan American Argentina (Standard Oil of Indiana), Continental Oil, Cities Service Development Co., Kerr McGee, Marathon Petroleum, Tennessee Argentina (Tennessee Gas Transmission Co.), Southeastern Drilling...
...entertainment, more star-laden than Judgment at Nuremberg and longer (though sometimes less amusing) than On the Beach. Filmed in 70 mm. Ultra Panavision and the new seamless, single-lens Cinerama, Kramer's epic can rightly be called a blockbuster-the blocks busted or severely strained during its marathon frenzy include those of three Plymouths, four Fords, two Dodges, one Jeep, a Chrysler Imperial and a Chevrolet...
...small desks while he answered questions from behind a huge barricade of a table. He asked them to drop in at his anniversary reception the following day, and they in turn asked him to a party of their own (he promptly accepted). Throughout, Khrushchev put on one of those marathon propaganda performances at which he is by turns hearty, earthy, funny, menacing, seemingly frank, and totally impervious to argument...