Word: preferment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rolling by the millions through U.S.-installed presses. Nor will North Viet Nam be overlooked in the satura tion attack: fully 5,000,000 leaflets will float down on the North from U.S. planes this week with the message: "The September elections prove that the masses in the South prefer freedom to Communism...
Thus it is that, despite the occasional grumbling, he runs a remarkably happy house. A vast majority of the best singers prefer working at the Met to anywhere else because of its superefficiency, its high morale, and its standing as the world's most important opera house. True, their squawks over federal and New York State taxes sound like anything but glowing arias, but they muddle through-rather brilliantly at times. "Singers will do anything to evade taxes," explains Bing, "so I have to cope with the names of their dogs listed as secretaries, and of their wives...
...trying to retain its present 9% tariff on primary aluminum, but has offered to admit a token quota of 100,000 tons at a lower rate of 5%. The U.S., which levies 51% on aluminum, and other countries want the Common Market to reduce its basic rate, would prefer to make aluminum duty-free everywhere...
...cities, the "urban guerrillas," of whom Mallin estimates there are at least 500 professionals in Saigon alone, seldom dare to attack an American or Vietnamese official on the streets, prefer to roll a grenade into a crowded bar or toss a plastic bomb into a teeming marketplace. The purpose is to erode confidence in the government's ability to provide protection and to try to "discourage business activity, cause investment capital to flee and, in general, to undermine the economy...
...even to some Frenchmen, the De Gaulle-Debre policy is beginning to appear piggish. Reflecting widespread sentiment, Cartoonist Jacques Faizant last week portrayed France as a piggy bank stuffed with gold instead of the truffles that most Frenchmen would prefer. The Paris daily Le Monde bluntly labeled the French accumulation of gold as "sterile stockpiling...