Word: slipped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What worked in Malaya-resettling peasants in "fortified villages" so that the guerrillas are cut off from peasant support-is not yet working in South Viet Nam. The peasants are passionately attached to their ancestral fields; when they are moved, they usually slip off into the jungle to join the Reds, who promise to give them back their land. In two fortified villages, part of "Operation Sunrise," where U.S. aid has supplied food, tools, houses and medical care, the peasants have discovered that life can be better than before. Elsewhere, they have simply been rounded up by uncomprehending district chiefs...
Another problem that the former Dean's departure allowed to slip from sight is that of the Visual Arts Center. The Administration planned the building largely because it felt a growing University ought to have one. Exactly who, among those concerned with Visual Arts, wanted it, and exactly what it should be used for were questions not raised at the time. Naturally, a committee is meeting on the center, but can come only to the most preliminary and indefinite conclusions. The Loeb Drama Center showed that the Administration produces purest chaos by permitting a building to go up without examining...
...than in 1958; iron ore has remained level, while coal and steel scrap have dropped sharply. More important, the President declared that the productivity of steel workers has risen enough so that the labor costs of producing a ton of steel have not increased since 1958, and will actually slip a bit this year. Productivity is an elusive and much disputed statistic. Kennedy's estimates of productivity gains in steel were roughly double the industry's own estimate of 2% yearly...
...Summit. Admit it. Your kid brother couldn't end the Cold War. Miss Fay, however, very nearly brings off her role with eclat. As it is, she has enough poise and charm to cover up an occasional fluff or to make you forget the juicy lines she lets slip by from lack of rehearsal. One might also excuse her tedious movements and lack of stage business for the same reasons, but the fault lies not in Pat Fay but in director Richard Greenbaum...
...have seen Maggie, Big Mama and Big Daddy would have been a mistake. But I think John van Sickle was the envy of many when he said: "I think I'd better slip away at this point...