Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...avoid splitting the army's loyalties in the balloting, both also want the presidency badly. So last week Thieu called Ky's bluff. He announced that he, too, would run, although it would be two or three weeks before he formally threw his hat in the ring. That left both Ky and Thieu the choice of withdrawing or deciding to do battle in a campaign for the presidency that could split the country...
...Opera's resident patrician Rudolf Bing. But the general manager of the Met is not opposed to receiving contributions-and last week he got a big one. Eastern Air Lines announced that it was giving the Met $500,000, which will enable Bing & Co. to produce a new Ring cycle of four Wagnerian operas to be presented in as many years...
...that mean that Ky would be the ruling generals' military candidate against the five civilians who have so far thrown their hats into the ring? Yes, said Ky: "There will be no other military candidate." As for General Nguyen Van Thieu, Chief of State and Ky's chief rival among the generals, Ky said: "I will never oppose him, but I do not think General Thieu will run." Then he added thoughtfully: "Although nothing is certain in Viet...
...bastion is formidable. Isolated by a bordering ring of mountains and agriculturally self-sufficient, Szechwan has a long tradition of rebellion against central governments. It has often proved a handy retreat for Chinese rulers in trouble, from the Emperor Ming of the 8th century to Chiang Kai-shek in the 1930s. So independent are the Szechwanese, that, as one Chinese proverb has it, "in Szechwan the dogs even bark...
...unsigned 7-to-2 majority opinion set no new obscenity guidelines. But it did hint at some. The court noted that the cases before it had not raised the question of "pandering" or "titillating" advertising, the basis last year for the court's upholding of the conviction of ring distribution of licentious material to juveniles or at protecting the public from being unwillingly exposed to such material. The virtually gratuitous mention of the three unraised questions seemed to indicate that the court may eventually look favorably on laws which specifically attempt to keep smut from children...