Word: octopus
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...Like an octopus, ROTC firmly plant its tentacles into all Ivy League school for decades. But since the late 1960s, when the program became a target of antiwar protest at all eight colleges, ROTC and the various climates in which it lived or died have taken different forms...
...tunnel may well be the best possible way to maintain Britain's thrust into Europe, it will have its victims. Impassioned objections have come from the Kentish villages that will be most affected. Residents are justifiably worried that their green and pleasant countryside will turn into a nightmarish octopus of access roads and tracks leading to and from the tunnel terminus. Complained William Hunt, 46, of Newington: "We don't count. We're like a pea on top of a mountain. If they don't want us, they just flick us away...
...sinks and the livestock barns take on deeper shadows, the crowds drift toward the midway-the merry-go-round, the octopus, the roller coaster and dozens of unnamed rides that promise squeals of terror. Bottle-and coin-toss games offer stuffed animals, drinking glasses and table lamps as prizes. Off to the side, barkers bellow the fascinations of a 500 look at the three-legged man, the two-headed baby and the incredible snake girl. And the burlesque show: "Come on in closer, folks. We're going to offer you some entertainment, spice-wise. Yessir, we have nudity...
...fact, that is a condensed version of what has actually happened to United Fruit Co.-famed in the U.S. for Chiquita bananas, but known to generations of Latin Americans as "el Pulpo" (the Octopus). The Talmudist is Eli Black, who in 1970 merged United Fruit into a food-based conglomerate that he was assembling, and has proceeded to change its operations, its image, and even its name-to United Brands Co. The payoff: United Brands has gone from a net loss of $24 million in 1971 to a net profit of $10 million for this year's first half...
...second possibility is a coalition between the army and Opus Dei. Sometimes called "God's Octopus," Opus Dei is a mystical network of Catholic laymen and clerics whose members combine spiritual discipline with temporal progress. They have had great influence on Spain. Many of the government's technocrats and statesmen belong, including Foreign Minister Gregorio López Bravo and Development Planning Minister Laureano López Rodó. If that group came to power, it would likely protect traditional values and at the same time press for moderate reform. Its members are best qualified to position Spain...