Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JOURNAL. "The Quiet Revolution." A documentary study of the economic, social and political reforms of Czech Communist Party Leader Alexander Dubcek that led to last month's Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. German, British and Czech films show the tense confrontation between Dubcek and Russia's Aleksei Kosygin and Leonid Brezhnev in August at Cierna...
...reorganize Congress have largely gone by the board. He is chairman of the Senate's Post Of fice and Civil Service Committee and is known as "Mr. Aviation" because of his continued-and unheeded-warn ings about America's crowded sky. Intelligent and hardworking, he is the quiet antithesis of Oklahoma's flamboyant king of the Senate, the late Bob Kerr. Yet back in the Sooner State, it was Kerr who took the stump to save Monroney's 1962 re-election bid. Now Kerr is gone, and his legacy of federal largesse haunts Monroney, who gets...
...months, the battlefields of South Viet Nam had been unnaturally quiet. There were those who argued that Hanoi was purposefully scaling down the war and that the U.S. should reciprocate by ending all bombing of North Viet Nam. The allied command insisted that the Communists had mere ly paused to regroup and resupply. Last week Hanoi ended the argument as Communist forces came out fighting the length of the narrow country, mounting as many as 50 coordinated assaults in a single day. Even so, the Communist campaign was weaker than the Tet offensive or the second wave of at tacks...
Fontanne's pet goose did not bite him. "I suppose he knew it was my birthday," said Alfred Lunt, 76. The quiet celebration took place on the Lunts' 110-acre country place in the rolling dairyland west of Milwaukee, where they have lived since their last major stage appearance in The Visit eight years ago. But the two troupers are still not ready to ring down the final curtain. Says Mrs. Lunt: "I'd probably swing back into my job if something really good came along." Says Mr. Lunt: "It's not over yet, you know...
...Quiet Advice. The country hardest hit by sisal's decline is Tanzania, the world's foremost producer, which supplies 35% of the world market, or about 220,000 tons a year. Last year, when Tanzania nationalized sisal plantations in an attempt to control its traditional No. 1 crop, scores of white settlers were left without compensation. Now the Socialists in Dar es Salaam are quietly advising some ex-sisal farmers that they can have their plantations back. The government has decided that it is better, after all, for the individual entrepreneur to lose money than...