Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The mix was too reform-minded for Mohammed Yusuf. The new legislature whipped up unproved charges of corruption against his regime, and Kabul's high school and university students followed up with a sit-in in the Wolesi Jirga, demanding Yusuf's ouster. Street demonstrations followed, and the...
∙NICARAGUA. In office since 1963, President René Schick, 56, works in the shadow of the Somoza brothers, Tachito and Luis, who control the country's military and much of its wealth. Schick and the Somozas are development-minded, however, and since 1961 their small (pop. 1,600...
Adventure today? There are those who say that adventure's day is done in America. The West has long since been closed to the pioneer, and its closing was mourned more than a century ago by Francis Parkman, a sickly Harvard law student who became a Western adventurer: "We...
Frequently an acquisition-minded com pany now turns to one of a growing but still little-known band of middlemen:
"New York society," declared Colonel William d'Alton Mann, "is inhabited by jackasses, libertines and parvenus." Not that he minded. For one thing, they made sensational copy for his scurrilous, scandalous Town Topics. For another, the publicity-shy Four Hundred provided him with a lucrative sideline: Publisher Mann was...