Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ISAAC BABEL: YOU MUST KNOW EVERYTHING, edited by Nathalie Babel. Newly translated short stories, abrupt prose exercises and journalistic sketches show the individuality that was both Babel's genius and his death warrant...
Such cheer as Burns inspired was short-lived. In flew President Nixon to inform the Governors that "dreams of unlimited billions being released once the war in Viet Nam ends are just that-dreams. True, there will be additional money, but the claims on it already are enormous. There should be no illusion that what some call the 'peace and growth dividend' will automatically solve our national problems." Added the President: "In order to find the money for new programs, we will have to trim it out of old ones...
...latter can be troublesome, particularly when the President is Richard Nixon, for whom the White House is not entirely a home. He is, by his own testimony, a "saltwater man," and in a relatively short span of time has picked up two seaside abodes in Florida, another in California, as well as retaining his leasehold on the old family manse in Whittier, Calif. While none of the four dwellings is perhaps fit for a king, the three recent acquisitions are certainly suitable to the style of a First Family, with all that that entails. How in the world does Nixon...
...tons of rice, and this year's may be four times as much. Ho moved almost as drastically in the industrial sector, only to see most of the results of his nation's efforts in capital investment wiped out by U.S. bombs. Consumer goods are in short supply, and quality has slipped. A thirsty Northerner, for instance, often must queue for two hours simply to quaff a glass of weak beer. Each adult is allowed a scant four yards of cloth annually. At an angry meeting of the United Women's Organization in Hanoi last spring, representatives criticized pointed...
...much more egalitarian society today than it was when the "republic" was proclaimed 24 years ago, but politically as well as economically, progress has been scant. Writers and artists are limited by political requirements; a brief attempt at liberalization in the late '50s, patterned after Mao's short-lived campaign to "let 100 flowers bloom," uncovered so much resentment that repression was reinstituted almost immediately. Ho, however, was never blamed for repression: skillfully, he divorced himself in the public mind from that harsh entity known as government. As British Journalist James Cameron put it, the people seemed to say: "This...