Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said that there was some real reason to expect that a civilian government in South Vietnam, with the burden of a military war and leadership lifted from it, could well come to some sort of agreement with the National Liberation Front. I asked him and pressed him about what would happen after an agreement in the South. Unification, he felt, would ultimately come. After all Vietnam was one country; Vietnamese were fundamentally one people...
...Intellect Gap. Graduate-school enrollment is expected to dip 25% to 50% or more, confronting some smaller schools with the very real threat of financial ruin. Most universities, depending heavily on graduate students to teach lower-level undergraduate courses, will have a hard time finding enough qualified people to stand behind their lecterns. More important, as many thousands of the nation's brightest young men enter the Army rather than graduate school, there will be a gap of at least two years in the development of much-needed skills and intellect. The new regulations, said Harvard President
...size and weaponry. As a comparison between the two navies shows (see chart), the U.S. remains indisputably the world's greatest sea power. But, in a remarkable turnaround since World War II, Moscow has transformed a relatively insignificant coastal-defense force that seldom ventured far from land into a real blue-water fleet...
...Angeles-born Henry Lew is became the first Negro musician to play regularly with a major U.S. orchestra, joining the double-bass section of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. His real ambition, though, was to swap his bow for a baton. He got conducting experience in the military with the Seventh Army Symphony, and later organized the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. In 1961, he substituted for Igor Markevitch with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and within a few years he ranked as the outstanding Negro conductor in the U.S., though he had no orchestra...
...course Sidney's happiness cannot last and Beauty's end is all too foreseeable. The real point is that he goes to his death with pride in his blackness and with no regard for what in him is owed to inherited whiteness. That touch is convincing enough, but not the narrative style ("When first Sidney saw Beauty Beast come walking with buoyant zeal, flesh of her nature lay scorched again"). There is something wildly outdated about such plantation-patented prose...