Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Herman Kahn, who popularized the notion of scenarios for plotting world events, has written a large number of scripts for ending the war. One, which he clearly does not think very likely or desirable, contains a grim extension of Rockefeller's pullback proposal. It is nothing short of further partition of Viet Nam, in which Hanoi would be given South Viet Nam's northernmost province of Quang Tri and part of Thua Thien south of it. Another involves the creation of a third, more or less independent buffer state between North and South Viet Nam, carved...
...esthetic Mardi Gras, and one obsessive concern of the "artists" is to make expressive art objects of themselves. They are human happenings, and as such may spell the death of art rather than its birth. For them, durability seems like death. Their credo is not "Life is short. Art is long" but "Life is short. Art is shorter." Sibylline Utterances. To move from the coffeehouses to an Old Vic revival of The Three Sisters is like catapulting through time. The production is exquisitely mounted, the acting impeccable. Joan Plowright makes Masha a woman of neurotically vulnerable ardor...
...cost of $200 million a year to its balance of payments, Britain has long accepted its role as one of the world's foremost aluminum importers. The high price of the electric power required for aluminum smelting has kept British manufacturing down to an insignificant annual 39,000 short tons of ingots, less than 10% of the country's needs...
...years from now the new plants, plus the increased smelting capacity of Alcan Aluminium Ltd., should be able to put 348,000 short tons of ingots on the market annually, but some analysts are predicting an aluminum glut before then. Sir Val Duncan, chairman of Rio Tinto, disagrees. "If you look at it globally, that must be nonsense," he says...
...criterion of their educational worth--but any estimate, even a fragmentary one--of the overall impact of the $3 billion in Title I aid has not yet been obtained, Mauch said. He pleaded for more time, noting that Title I has been in existence for only three years--a short time to set up reliable evaluation procedures, he said...