Word: rakingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Focus of Action. As U.S. forces begin the move, Thailand-a fellow SEATO power-becomes the focus of action. With key bases established at Udon, Korat and Bangkok, the West can rake Communist-held portions of Laos with ease. In case of battle, U.S. combat troops would probably not be the first to go into action in Laos. Instead, U.S.-manned helicopters and transports would drop guerrilla forces of Thais, Pakistanis and Filipinos into the fighting sectors while U.S. troops occupied the Mekong River valley towns from Savannakhet through Paksane and Vientiane, up to Luangprabang; this would provide strong defense...
...Tuileries ball and then discovered that her husband was a tobacco merchant. That very night. Napoleon is supposed to have signed the decree nationalizing the weed, and a golden harvest has poured into France's treasury ever since. Ex plained one candid official last week: "We rake in $500 million a year in tobacco taxes - that's why we're celebrating...
Chote is revered as a rake but is actually "virgers." (U.S. students of fictional manners may find Chote's virginity-after two years' service with the British army of occupation in Vienna-somewhat hard to credit.) He pretends not to work, but sneaks off after a few raucous beers at the local pub to do a bit of secret studying. On a scholarship he has gone to a minor but passably posh school, and his family, which has invested all its hopes in the possibility of his sliding into the mysterious, U-type Brahmin group of English society...
Fortunes & Murder. From his headquarters hamlet of Brasil, pudgy Victor Merchán, 52, wields power in a 5-sq.-mi. area, on the fringes of which anti-Communist coffeemen patrol their land with rifles. Born of coffee-bean pluckers but now enjoying a fortune from his tax rake-off, Merchán studied two years in Moscow, returned to indoctrinate Colombians and, around 1930, incited peasants to overrun most of the area's coffee plantations...
Chrysler of late has been suffering from a profitless prosperity; first-quarter profits dropped 28% in 1960 under 1959, though sales were up 34%. Part of the problem is rising costs, but Colbert is determined that none of the slippage should result from supplier overcharging and executive rake-offs...