Word: paye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Familial Duties. In Boston next day, Ted took up his self-imposed task of fund raising to pay off the $3,500,000 in debts run up by Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign. He was determined not to let the $1,000-a-plate banquet at the Sheraton Plaza degenerate into a wake. After expressing the Kennedys' gratitude to the "finest and dearest friends of our family," he gently needled his mother Rose, introduced her as a "shy and retiring person," as evidenced by her frequent appearances on NBC's Today show. Listening to Ted, a Boston...
...With that in mind, President Nguyen Van Thieu last October launched a major drive to secure 1,120 new hamlets before the Tet holiday next February. Nearly half of all U.S. military operations are now launched in support of this political effort, and the work is apparently beginning to pay off: last week the U.S. announced that 73.3% of South Viet Nam's population is under government control, up 6.5% in two months. It is even higher than totals claimed before the disastrous Tet offensive-though some observers believe that it may be considerably inflated...
...money for colleges and students enough, said the commission. More federal funds must be provided for counseling potential college students and guiding them toward higher education. The Government must also pay for a talent search among ill-prepared students from second-rate colleges who have the intellect for graduate studies, and subsidize studies to help them qualify...
Chinese Torture. Grey, a rugged but wiry six-footer, has become tense and pale under this peculiar form of Chinese torture. At the second of two 20 minute visits that British diplomats have been allowed to pay him in 17 months, he complained of chest pains, reported that a Communist doctor conceded that he may have bronchitis-but would not do much about it. Guards deliver the People's Daily even though Grey cannot read Chinese. He grows weary of the Peking Review, an English-language Maoist propaganda magazine. He has a library in his upstairs quarters...
...plans for the immediate future are based not on a personnel man's questions but on their own violent demonstrations. They are the college-football players who hope that they have shown enough size, speed, skill and strength to be selected by professional football scouts to play for pay...