Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...century when ships calling at Canton began swapping rum and ratguards for labor and litchi nuts. Today's scrounger can be an Air Cav supply sergeant or an Air Force crew chief, but Viet Nam's Feddersen outdoes them all-both in Yankee horse-trading skill and sheer inventiveness. In a scant 14 months, he unplugged the logistical bottleneck that had plagued the development of the Chu Lai enclave, and in the process set up his outfit as the most efficient unit in the area. "Over here it's a self-help program," says Feddersen, "where...
...Sheer Frustration. Unlike the affluent and aggressive contact men maintained in Washington by business and labor, the discreet university lobbyists are less concerned with shaping new legislation than with helping their schools take advantage of laws already on the books. Typical of these college representatives is Mark Ferber, 36, a Ph. D. in political science from U.C.L.A., who represents the nine campuses of the University of California. Ferber defines his job as mainly "just reading bills and advising the university on what effect they will have." Rowan Wakefield, who represents the State University of New York and its 58 branches...
...wildly funny scene in which British recruits are drilling with broomsticks. They are imaginging that they hate Germans and imagining that they have guns. The dressing down the recruits get when they don't imagine hard enough is, however, real--they manage to convince you of that by sheer force of good acting. You won't see mime as good as their rendition of a bayonet charge for a long while...
...ELIZABETH (His Master's Voice). This hit musical, based on The Barretts of Wimpole Street, has been running in London for two seasons, is due to come to Broadway late this fall. The original cast album is a delight, combining a lyrical score with fine singing and sheer charm...
Pileup of Problems. Sheer disgust was Onganía's motive. From the moment Illia took over, his philosophy had been to sit quietly back and let the land of beef and wheat run itself. The only place it ran was downhill. Prices, wages, national debt and unemployment soared, and Illia's one really concrete action-cancellation of all foreign oil contracts-proved a disaster. Argentina, which has been almost self-sufficient in oil, must now import $100 million worth annually...