Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Final arbiter of any new government will be Major General Joseph Mobutu and his undisciplined soldiery. They were still the most potent single force on the Congo scene. At week's end, Mobutu made his position clear in an order of the day to his troops. "The National Army cannot tolerate that the country be handed over to men who are guided by foreign influences," said Mobutu. "The Congo is independent and will stay independent; it is not for sale to any ideological bloc." This declaration seemed to rule out just about everybody in the Congo-except maybe Mobutu...
Like any other potent social medicine, government assistance to the needy often causes unpleasant side effects. The welfare state means new security for the millions who do not share the nation's affluence. But it also means public intervention in private lives, job-shirking relief chiselers who loaf at government expense, and tax burdens that soar higher every year. Can the side effects be nullified without crimping the cure? Last week one city answered with a resounding yes -and in the process, Newburgh, N.Y., gave the nation cause for some sober second thoughts on the use-and misuse...
...every Frenchman's breast lurks a passion more potent, if possible, than his love of the franc or good food. Its outward and visible symbol is the bicycle, but the emotions that bicycling inspires in France have little to do with transportation or exercise. For priests, market-bound peasants, bankers who would sooner pedal than be chauffeured, bicycling is a way to dream and drift in dignity, to twirl life like a long-stemmed glass of Alsace wine. "Vive le vélo, un ami de l'homme" proclaims an affectionate Norman toast: "Long live the bike...
...presidential troubleshooter for the continent, later gave Speechwriter Richard Goodwin, 29, responsibility for Cuban affairs. At the time of the Bay of Pigs debacle, Kennedy called Rostow and Bundy away from their paper planning on Laos to give advice on Cuba; Nitze and Attorney General Robert Kennedy added their potent voices in council. Fortnight ago, the President created still another Latin America specialist, sent U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson on a prestige-building, length-of-the-continent trip. Inevitably, the efficiency of the State Department regulars has suffered. Since January, four of the top Latin American experts in the Foreign Service...
Bishop Thomas K. Gorman of Dallas and Fort Worth was not about to tell her any such thing, as he slapped down the potent Visitor. He had not the slightest objection, he announced, "to Catholics living at the YMCA or participating in its recreational programs. Of course they should not participate in the religious exercises-any more than we would expect a Baptist to come to our service and kneel and stand up with...