Word: nu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...largely rural Indiana district, Representative Lee Hamilton heard a Columbus storekeeper puzzle over the war: "I just don't know; people are more disturbed and confused than I have ever seen them." Some of Hamilton's constituents argued that the U.S. should attack North Viet Nam with nu clear weapons, but generally the mood was moderate...
...vowels, a, i and o, tend to avoid one another. A contact chart would show that three of the most common letters in the ciphertext -O, U and A-are the most mutually exclusive. OA appears twice, OU once, and UO, UA, AO and AU not at all. But NU appears five times in the cryptogram. It happens that the most frequent English vowel diagraph is ea. Thus it is a good bet that U = a. Similarly, since the combination io is most frequent among the three dissident vowels in English, assume that it is represented in the cipher...
...China to Western culture, many top artists and performers are going through the same hell that Ma did. It was reported that Liu Shih-kun, topflight pianist and runner-up to Van Cliburn at the Moscow Tchaikovsky festival in 1958, had his wrists broken by Red Guards. Hung Hsien-nu, Canton's best-known opera singer, was tried by kangaroo courts, had her hair bobbed, and now works sweeping floors. Chou Hsin-fang, star of the Peking opera, and elderly Author Lao She (known in the West for Rickshaw Boy) have disappeared and are believed to be either dead...
...have taken most of the turns at the helm of Burma ever since the nation became independent in 1948: gentle, popular U Nu, the kerchiefed, sometime Buddhist monk who became Burma's premier politician; and tough, ascetic General Ne Win, chief of the Burmese army. The first Premier, U Nu, found things too much for him, voluntarily handed power over to Ne Win and the military in 1958. Within 17 months, Ne Win's mailed fist had put the government's house in order, and he chivalrously handed power back to a re-elected U Nu. Once...
Last week the general dropped in for an hour's chat with his old political swapmate and to the surprise of everyone, including U Nu, set the ex-Premier free. It largely reflected Ne Win's solid sense of security-and his conviction that after nearly five years out of circulation, U Nu's old political magic has largely evaporated. Taking no chances, Ne Win, in the best tradition of Asian indirection, suggested to U Nu that he might well want to use his new freedom for a "pilgrimage" outside Burma or for "medical treatment" abroad...