Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Pleiku was open for the moment, the peril in the highlands was hardly diminished. The next likely pressure point in the Viet Cong's plateau push is Kontum, once a pleasant mountain village of open-air cafés with circus awnings and a population of 14,000. Though only 30 miles from Pleiku, Kontum is surrounded by some 6,000 guerrillas backed up by an estimated 10,000 North Vietnamese regulars, and is still accessible only by airlift, as is nearby Ban Me Thuot. If the Viet Cong attack, as seems almost certain, Kontum's fate...
...Premier George Athanassiadis-Novas did not doubt that Papandreou was popular with the voters. More pertinent at the moment was the old man's strength in Parliament. Novas' regime had won over at least 20 of Papandreou's 171 members of the Center Union faction in the legislature, leaving Papandreou with something less than a clear majority. It was also well known that a great many Center Union rank-and-filers had become disenchanted with Papandreou's particular brand of despotism in party affairs...
...unrest from backbenchers, Home had privately reiterated his determination to stay on. Party Chairman Edward du Cann concurred, but the British press, most notably the Tory press, emphatically did not, and had been saying so in a rising crescendo. "He should go," asserted the Sunday Express. "The right moment to change," advised the Sunday Times. "Sir Alec could now retire with the genuine thanks of his party," allowed The Economist...
Flash photos have long been a matter of luck and frustration for the amateur photographer. Either he totes around cumbersome, electronically-charged strobe lights that always seem to go on the blink at the wrong moment or stuffs his pockets full of flashbulbs that have to be coaxed into the camera's flash gun before every photograph. Now Sylvania and Kodak have developed a neat solution-the Sylvania flashcube, which is no larger than an ice cube and contains four miniature flash bulbs, each with its own built-in reflector. Packaged in threes for $1.95, the plastic-coated cube...
...omnipotence, Lenny concludes that he has replaced God. What this amounts to is the withering away of the state. Lenny dismisses the police. If a man is tempted to rape, a boy to an act of vandalism, Lenny scotches the impulse by a mere moment's concentration. Soon there is nothing left but Lenny-who thinks he is perfect. Actually, he's real sick, and his sickness erupts in the society he has created. Women wantonly strip off their clothes in the street; men brawl. At the last, an invasion of radio-guided Soviet government tanks, impervious...