Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Four short novels by the life-shy but acutely observant Piedmontese who, since his suicide in 1950 at 42, has become postwar Italy's most honored writer...
Medicaid, the much heralded medical plan of New York State, falls far short of humanitarian medical practice, as Dr. Salber explained. A cumbersome registration program with a humiliating and involved inquiry into family finances may turn away many, and those that persist will often find the kind of impersonal attention that Dr. Salber did away with at the Eliot Center. Only when physicians take time to explain problems in laymen's language, only when the patient is voluntarily involved in deciding what the proper treatment is, and only when social as well as medical assistance is provided will patients willingly...
...doubles partner this spring. Although he held down the number two position on Harvard's National Collegiate Championship team, Terrell is struggling to earn his varsity letter in tennis. Barnaby believes Terrell has a much better future in squash than in tennis at Harvard. "Our tennis season is too short to permit much yearly improvement," he says. "If Larry went to school in the West where he could hit all year around, he could develop into a great tennis player...
EVEN if the U.S. unexpectedly agrees to the dissolution of the Thieu government and allows the subsequent establishment of a coalition heavily weighted in favor of the NLF, several other knots must be unraveled. In short, what some Americans have long considered a simple sell-out will not be sufficient to conclude the imbroglio in Vietnam...
...State Department will probably feel compelled to vindicate the principle the President invoked in 1965 when he first sharply escalated the U.S. commitment in Vietnam. At that date, and with unswerving conviction ever since, the U.S. insisted that it only wanted the Communists to "leave their neighbors alone." In short, it seems improbable that the United States, no matter who occupies the White House, is likely to "sell out" Saigon without vindicating its belief that "aggression," if not "national liberation," must stop...