Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paid twice as much as army regulars. Snapped Mme. Nhu: "The women are officers, not simple soldiers." She also organized the Women's Solidarity Movement, a sort of Oriental Junior League whose 1,200,000 members supervise workers' nurseries and welfare centers?and serve as a political intelligence network throughout the country...
...endemic. A new plot is hatched or at least talked about daily. Diem and his family are aware of most of the talk, and their nerve is good. Suggesting that there will be a coup unless the Buddhist crisis is brought under control, Nhu keeps his elaborate secret police network constantly on the alert. In government "reeducation centers" throughout the country are an estimated 20,000 political internees. According to one report, the new contingency plan against a coup is to draw regiments from the worst Viet Cong areas to the capital, a "deliberately dangerous" plan designed to make...
...American countries incorporated to some extent the tenents of university autonomy. The strong arm of dictator Juan Vicente Gomez, however, slowed reform movements in Venezuela. Not until the mid 1940's, under the moderate leadership of President Isaias Medina, did larger changes take place. The plans for the present network of Venezuelan universities as well as the principle of university autonomy were then established...
...announcers should be re porters. But the idea flopped for the simple reason that most reporters have the public personality of an Underwood portable. So it came as no real surprise when ABC announced that Hagerty would now become a vice president in charge of corporate relations for the network's parent company, American Broadcasting-Paramount Theaters, Inc. In that post, he will most likely serve as a spokesman for A.B.-P.T. before Congress and the FCC, where a politician is a politician...
...meeting the night without a hymn of thanks. So ingrained did the joyful habit of singing become that Young founded a choir at journey's end. This week the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, having long since won world renown, starts its 35th year of radio broadcasting-the longest sustained network program in history...