Word: postings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...distinctive touches to enhance the comforts of the house. Recent visitors noticed a new bulletproof glass wall beside the swimming pool and a sound system to soothe the presidential nerves with the piped-in music of Mantovani and Kostelanetz. And he has already had some luck: his post-purchase survey of the land showed that it was not 21 but 26 acres in extent-a five-acre bonanza that Nixon's advisers estimate could eventually be worth as much...
...born in 1890 in Nghe An province, in what is today North Viet Nam. According to a local maxim, "a man born in Nghe An province will oppose anything," and both his parents were cast in that rebellious mold. His father lost his post as a magistrate for associating with the anti-French movement; his mother, who died when Ho was ten, was charged with stealing weapons from French barracks for the rebels. At the time, nationalism was beginning to be a potent force in Southeast Asia, spurred by the generally oppressive colonial rule of the French, British and Dutch...
...worked for a time. But in 1956, when the government tried to force every farmer into a collective, a peasant revolt erupted in his native Nghe An province. Though the policy was almost certainly Ho's, Truong Chinh was made the scapegoat. He lost his post as party leader. Giap denounced him for having "executed too many people" and having "resorted to terror." The agrarian purge was not the only instance of the regime's bloody-mindedness. Immediately after independence was declared in 1945, Ho's officials, bent on eliminating all real or potential opposition, wiped out thousands...
...student board empowered to conduct hearings and appeals on everything short of "major disasters." Cornell University mailed questionnaires to students, faculty and alumni seeking their nominations for a successor to James Perkins, who resigned the presidency after the crisis last spring. Last week the trustees filled the post with the man who was the preferred choice of all three groups, Provost Dale R. Corson...
...lawyer. He is also one of the Republican Party's most loyal workers. A wryly humorous member of the "Arizona Mafia," he served as Barry Goldwater's administrative assistant and political aide until the Senator named him party chairman during the 1964 presidential campaign. Ousted from his post by the GOP's liberal elements in 1965. Burch endeared himself to Nixon by declaring that Nixon was "one of the few contenders who emerged with honor" from the 1964 Republican debacle...