Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London, might a Russian reporter with a conspiratorial imagination interpret recent events in Britain. Clifton was taking a puckish poke at Kremlinologists in the West. Suspicious by trade, they have been agog with speculation and wild surmise about the deaths of twelve Russian generals within a recent 17-day period...
...staff officer in the Ministry of Defense, was 67 at the time of his death and General Penkovsky, 65. Despite the twelve deaths in 17 days, overall the mortality has been steady: 46 have died since the beginning of this year, only nine more than in the comparable period of 1968. Considering that Russia counted 10,000 generals in its army at the end of World War II, the close deaths of that many of them a quarter of a century later was curious but actuarially quite plausible. Old soldiers, after all, do die as well as fade away...
...Dartmouth College, strong sentiment against the Viet Nam war has long focused on the nearest target: ROTC. In democratic fashion, the college last month submitted the issue to a student referendum. Duly reflecting the results, the faculty then voted to abolish ROTC over a four-year period so that incoming freshmen who are counting on miltary scholarships will not be penalized. The plan did not satisfy a radical minority led by members of Students for a Democratic Society. Calling for the immediate abolition of ROTC, they vowed to stage "an act of civil disobedience...
...always a surprise when a play can be revived after 40 years without its looking and sounding like a doddering idiot. If The Front Page has a certain cornball, period flavor, it simply seems to add relish to a high-spirited and persistently amusing evening. The Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur saga of newspapering in the Chicago of the 1920s is the liveliest public relations handout ever issued on the newspaper game. It makes a newspaperman seem like a combination of knight, sleuth, adventurer and liquored-up, hard-bitten prince of the realm - the Fourth Estate seen in the guise...
...Harvard were mainly concerned with this simple problem, but it is easily overlooked when compared to all the other questions in the wide range of the committee's concerns. A review of the situation suggests, though, that the emphasis given this aspect of Harvard's governance during the emotional period after the bust was well placed...