Word: samuel
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...Samuel Johnson A land of vastly mixed pedigrees, India has been forced to concede again that its own indispensable language is English. After meeting with the chief ministers of India's 16 states, Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri reaffirmed in Parliament last week that English would continue to be an "associate" official language. By this promise Shastri hoped to calm the linguistic strife in South India, which has cost at least 60 lives and threatened to bring down his government...
Hardly a day goes by that far-traveling Samuel Bronfman, 74, the founder of the world's biggest distillery, does not telephone his son Edgar, 35. Last week, at his Chippendale desk in Manhattan's Seagram Building, Edgar took a typical call. Sam said he was feeling fine, but it was raining nastily in Clearwater, Fla., where he was on a visit. And by the way, the feisty father asked his son, shouldn't they market bottled cocktails under the Seagram label? Edgar smiled with satisfaction...
...American withdrawal from South Vietnam includes the sacrifice of two countries (South Vietnam and Laos) to the Communists, the disruption and probably destruction of a third (Thailand), by insurrection, the drastic weakening of a fourth (Malaysia), and the general undermining of the American and British positions in southeast Asia. Samuel P. Huntington, Professor of Government
...case of Spain's most lucrative foreign producer, Samuel Bronston, the government has gone even farther. Once so overextended that he couldn't pay his tab at Madrid's Castellana Hilton, Bronston has been bailed out with an official two-year moratorium on his debts, plus a fat crude-oil import license. Of course, Bronston has of late been cranking out some patriotic Spanish shorts as a sort...
...Samuel P. Huntington, professor of government, said last night that the United States cannot win the war in Vietnam because we have not recognised that the revolution is "less a war than a political campaign" for the support of the disaffected masses...