Word: preferment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They really don't like these sharp actions like Dak To," says one American general. "They prefer the drip, drip, drip of so many American casualties every week, every month. But they can't have both the drip, drip, drip and the sharp actions...
Makarios still faces a radically changed situation. He is now free to stop paying lip service to enosis and get on with the course he seems to prefer anyhow: making Cyprus a strong independent country. He will have to be more considerate of the 120,000 Turkish Cypriots, who are outnumbered by the 480,000 Cypriots of Greek origin, unless he wants to face renewed invasion threats from Turkey without his Greek army support and most of the Greek officers who commanded his guard. There was, in fact, already talk in Nicosia of a new reconciliation program to allay Turk...
Lyndon Johnson is fond of comparing himself to the Harry Truman of 1948, who won an upset victory with a rip-roaring "give-'em-hell" campaign. Johnson's opponents prefer to compare him to the Truman of 1952, who decided not to run again in the midst of an unpopular war. Neither analogy quite fits. The fact is that the 1968 campaign is shaping up as a race like none before...
...some 10,000 movies, New York Times Film Critic Bosley Crowther, 62, is calling it quits. Not that he is tired of movies. Far from it. "One of the rewards is that I can still be enthusiastic about movies after all these years," he says. But he would prefer to escape the daily grind and write about films and film makers at a more leisurely pace. Starting Jan. 1, 1968, when New Yorker Writer Renata Adler, 29, replaces him, he will do just that...
...connection with the movie. The difficulty is that there are so many connections: he not only directed but also helped write the film, plays one of the principal parts himself, and his girl friend (Sharon Tate) is the female lead. But it is easy to see why Polanski would prefer to blush unseen. Neither spooky nor spoofy, Vampire Killers never manages to get out of the coffin...