Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buddhist-influenced territory and who, not so incidentally, is finishing a book on Buddhism and politics in Southeast Asia. Absorbing all the reporting along with the rich store of existing Buddhist literature caused Writer Jason McManus to spend, appropriately enough, even more time than most cover stories require in sheer contemplation of all that the subject means. The result is a story that reveals Buddhism, the ancient religion assuming new political power, as a force with which thinking people around the world must be prepared to reckon...
Attacks from Within. Liberal Alberto Lleras Camargo, who became Colombia's first coalition President in 1958, was an able administrator who held the frente together by sheer statesmanship. Conservative Valencia, 55, a courtly, scholarly lawyer, lacks his predecessor's élan and political acumen. When his budget came before Congress last October, his own party attacked it as inflationary. But Valencia, the son of Colombia's most revered poet and a lover of poetry himself, has little patience for anything so prosaic as economics. Famed for his gallantry to the ladies and a romantic passion for hunting...
...Berkeley administration has been characterized not only by ineptitude, but by sheer stupidity," David S. Landes, professor of History, charged at yesterday's RGA meeting...
...fouls. Harvard used its starting five of Williams, McClung, Sedlacek, Gene Dressler, and Leo Soully for all but two seconds of the Springfield game, because the Crimson bench is so weak. McClung and Williams must stay out of foul trouble; if either collects five personals, it would be sheer disaster...
Just as there is a certain element of conspiracy in the attempts of inter national speculators to bring down a whole nation's monetary structure, strong elements of secrecy and suspense go into the efforts to foil them. By sheer guesswork, the U.S. and British bankers set the size of the rescue needed by Britain at a record $3 billion, not count ing the $1 billion already available through the International Monetary Fund. The U.S. agreed to put up $1 billion of the amount - and to ask ten nations to put up the other $2 billion...