Word: personally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Adventures. Nine years after Castro's victorious march into Havana, rationing is still the Cuban's biggest gripe. The monthly rice allowance is down to 3 Ibs. per person, meat to ½Ib. Men are allowed only one new shirt and pair of trousers a year; women, one new dress a year, if available. Because of a similar shortage of spare parts, appliances and machines are constantly breaking down. Anything that does run fetches a capitalist's ransom. A nine-year-old G.E. refrigerator that "still cools" brought $2,000 in Havana recently; a rusted...
...frustration of the players whose glove compartments are full to overflowing with nonwin coupons. To jolly them along, American's "Super Pro," which is offering 250 Mustangs to the first 250 who can fill five blank spaces with the pictures of professional football stars, produced on TV in person the hardest of all the stars to find, Detroit Lions' Wayne Walker. The gag brought nothing but hollow laughter from the thousands of Super Pro players still lacking the Walker stamp...
...include punitive measures. General Hershey's original directive "suggested" the reclassification of demonstrators and obstructors because their actions were, again, not in the "national interest." The exercise of the right of dissent changed their status from that of a student deferred in the national interest to that of a person in a "nonessential" endeavor...
...this is precisely what is required. Washington should tell Saigon what virtually every sane person knows--namely that the task of destroying the Vietcong insurgency is a Sisyphean one. The U.S. should then, of course, inform Thieu that she intends to pursue all peace feelers in the hope of ending her prohibitively costly involvement in Vietnam...
...Executive Committee attracts a particular type of person. Leslie A. Levis '67, one of the club's first Radcliffe members (the club merged with the Radcliffe Republican Club in the spring of 1966) said last year, "Executive Committee members all look like Midwesterners." A Jewish committee member from New York seems more like the Wyoming rancher Republican than other New Yorkers. And the president of the club, Jay B. Stephens '68, is an earnest Iowan...