Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Couple of Things." Anxious to get the house in order, a group of younger Amex members tried to oust the McCormick administration. Their revolt was beaten back, but it spurred the exchange to appoint an investigating committee of Wall Street leaders to do what it could to clean things up before the SEC moved in with public disclosure. Turning its attention to McCormick, the investigating committee soon picked up what its tightlipped members described only as "a couple of things...
...central government must have at least the resources that the Belgian administrators had available to them --the resources of Katanga. Perhaps additional capital will come to a new Congo state from private investors and organizations such as the World Bank. But domestic order--which presupposes the subduing of secessionist revolt, and control of the national wealth--must come first...
Like their God-King, the Dalai Lama, the Tibetans left their homes to escape brutal Red Chinese repression after the failure of the 1959 revolt. They were brought to Switzerland by ten Swiss calling themselves Friends of Tibet, and including members of a 1953 Himalayan mountain-climbing expedition, Asia scholars, authors and businessmen. The intense, quiet-mannered Tibetan moppets instantly charmed the Swiss with their small, deft hands and disarming smiles. The adults are faring equally well. In Unterwasser, a Red Cross social worker showed the four wide-eyed Tibetan women how to scrub the walls and launder their clothes...
Faulted Hero. But Lawrence's troubled spirit has not been allowed to rest in peace. Six years ago, Novelist Richard Aldington performed a literary autopsy on Lawrence's remains, charged that Lawrence was a downright fraud, possibly a homosexual, certainly a poseur whose role in the Arab revolt had been negligible. Old friends from Winston Churchill down rallied to Lawrence's defense, but the damage had been done. Lawrence's own confessions in Pillars made it clear that he had known from the beginning that the Great Powers intended to carve up the Middle East, that...
Nutting believes that Lawrence began to see himself as a kind of latter-day Messiah. Shown an illustration for Pillars that pictured him as a godhead above the clouds looking down on the Arab revolt, Lawrence was amazed that anyone could capture so completely what at times he felt about himself during the desert campaign. But he also felt deeply that he had betrayed the Arab cause in whose name he fought. Fearful of his enormous talent for power and equally fearful of the potential consequences of such power if misdirected, Lawrence fled to the monastic security of the R.A.F...