Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Diplomats in Rangoon concede that, compared to the rest of Southeast Asia -with the notable exception of sturdy and prosperous little Thailand-Burma is not too badly off. In other words, it has just managed to avoid disaster. But that still leaves it far from being a pilot plant for Western policy in Asia...
...matter how effectively the U.S. and the International Monetary Fund join to prevent the pound's short-term collapse, the long-term problem of rising prices can be solved only by the British themselves. Insulated by high tariffs, British businessmen have failed to modernize their industrial plant. Clinging to small scale industry, they have resisted mechanization. Their disdain for impersonal management techniques has stifled efficiency. And their scorn for money-grubbing, aggressive salesmanship has inhibited their ability to expand new markets...
...refuses to merge with the others. The British refer to their salesmen as "spivs," "bagmen", or "touts" and their salesmanship often reflects this disdain. Auto companies tell of suppliers who refuse business because added orders might "upset stability" of production. And the Economist describes a visit to a British plant in which "you will be taken aside to see the real pride of the firm, some ghastly Edwardian relic which, it is explained, is now miraculously working almost as well as in 1905, except that two men have to be kept constantly at work to redust...
...leading from the statue's head (where a million tourists annually stare out at the harbor through windows in the crown) into the 42-ft.-long torch-bearing arm, from which the public is excluded. At the statue's shoulder, Bowe reported, the Black Liberation boys could plant a few sticks of dynamite, detonate them with electrical blasting caps, and-bang!-in one blast the "damned old bitch" would be rendered both headless and torchless...
Nicholas W. Gillham '54, a plant geneticist, will become assistant professor of Biology, and Thomas C. Patterson, a specialist in South American archaeology and ethnology, will be assistant professor of Anthropology...