Word: os
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MAJOR LANE ROGERS, 36, a lean, dry-humored U.S. Marine Corps regular, has been in Viet Nam for 10½ months as adviser to a Vietnamese marine batallion. He has no command capacity whatever. All he can do os offer suggestions when and if they are solicited by his Vietnamese "counterpart." To perform effectively, the adviser must earn the trust and friendship of his Vietnamese opposite number- a process that often takes weeks, and sometimes is never achieved. Whenever an American adviser tries to force his views on a Vietnamese commander, he is in for trouble. Thus one overzealous adviser...
...spiritual. "Life is ceaseless discovery," he wrote. "Life is movement." First, from layers of earthly matter billions of years old, evolved the biosphere, the realm of living organisms. But with man, argued Teilhard, came also what he calls the noosphere (from the Greek word for mind: noos, pronounced no-os), the realm of thought and spirit...
Last summer a Brazilian farmer named Osório Fernandes took his don key Pelé with him to town. In the marketplace of Venceslau Guimarâes, a small boy began tormenting Pelé with a stick, and the donkey struck back-killing the boy with a kick in the head. Police Chief Emiliano Gonçalves had the farmer arrested, but Fernandes wept so profusely in his jail cell that Gonçalves changed his mind and locked up the donkey instead. The charge against the animal: murder. Osório Fernandes angrily leveled a charge...
...Marti Airport in Havana, 50 flaxen-haired Soviet technicians clutch cardboard boxes of rum still stenciled with the anachronistic legend: "Let's go to Cuba, the inviting island next door." Soviet-piloted MIG-21s scorch over the countryside near the airbase at San Antonio de los Baños; Soviet freighters dot Havana harbor, new arrivals unloading daily...
Votes & Excuses. Where poverty and underemployment are everyday realities and privilege is taken for granted, self-seeking politicians underwrite featherbedding to win votes from powerful unions, and then seek out economists to provide scholarly excuses. Says Brazil's Juvenal Osório Gomes, a government economist: "Only a violently capitalistic regime without any social sentiment would threaten workers with the abject misery of having to look for a job and not finding it. Brazil is not violently capitalistic and never will...