Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...Mexico Artist Peter Hurd, 62, for the White House Historical Association and destined to hang in the East Wing. Hurd sketched L.B.J. on the wing, whenever he could, but mainly had to work from photographs. "He's a chair-fighter. You can't get him to sit still," the artist complained. Despite the difficulties, it was a rewarding job. "President Johnson has a very paintable face," said Hurd. "What I would call Texas Roman...
With campus morale shattered by the Free Speech uproar, the University of California at Berkeley one year ago ap peared to be a great institution careening toward chaos. Yet this spring, while sit-in protests over draft-deferment tests swept Chicago, Wisconsin, C.C.N.Y. and Stanford, Berkeley students kept their cool, and the campus moved hopefully toward creation of a cohesive community. What made the difference? The most convincing answer appears to be the effective peacemaking of Chancellor Roger W. Heyns, a former vice president at the University of Michigan who was specifically-and desperately-hired last July to calm Berkeley...
...facts. While Hanoi, thanks to the careful targeting of the U.S. bombers, as a population center is probably safer than any place in South Viet Nam today, its atmosphere is hardly conducive to clearheaded armchair generalship. Bomb shelters are everywhere: at 8-ft. intervals between sidewalks and curbs sit concrete, barrel-sized holes for individuals to jump into, pulling manhole covers atop them. Slit trenches deface Hanoi's lovely leafy parks, where the flame trees last week were still in bloom, trunks neatly whitewashed...
Four years from now the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library will sit on the banks of the Charles across the street from Eliot House. Hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of visitors will pour through it during its first year. It will change the map of Cambridge drastically and it may also change the complexion of academic Harvard. For half of the $20 million raised from the public for the memorial will be given to the University on the endowment for the John F. Kennedy institute of Politics...