Word: spend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sometimes a brother in fact. Unlike the U.S. soldier in Viet Nam, who knows he will not have to fight a day longer than one year, draftees in the ARVN ranks face a three-year tour in combat. Also unlike U.S. units, Saigon ranger, airborne and marine units often spend 60 to 90 days at a stretch out in the field. In the ARVN, a division commands only two artillery battalions v. the four available to an American division. U.S. air and artillery do back up the Vietnamese forces, of course, but Americans naturally support their own forces first...
Ever since it was announced that the elegant old dowager was retiring, her friends have wondered how she would spend her sunset years. Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner considered asking her to join his bunny empire, and New York's Mayor Lindsay definitely hoped to have her for his Board of Education. S.S. Queen Mary, 33, ended up going to the city of Long Beach, Calif., which will transform her into a hotel and maritime museum. Long Beach's bid of $3.4 million was about $1,000,000 better than any other, said Cunard Lines Chairman Sir Basil Smallpiece...
...Chinese education is bound to be chaotic. Already Mao's revolution is producing its own backlash among the youth-a new hippie-type, dropout group that Shanghai newspapers are castigating as "wanderers": "Instead of fighting on the battlefront, they wander around school campuses, parks and streets; they spend their time in swimming pools and playing chess and cards. They take an attitude of nonintervention in the struggle." But Mao's men tend to give such wanderers short shrift. The aim of education is preparation for political action, and Maoist leaders have no intention of letting their Red Guards...
...Japanese. Now there are 19 U.S. companies in the growing piano market, and it has become more competitive than ever. Some companies actually pay artists to use their pianos. Prestigious Steinway sells all the pianos it can make (3,500 a year), hence does not bother; but many manufacturers spend as much as $50,000 for an endorsement from a big-name performer or a music center. The struggle for the mass market has stiffened with the entry of low-priced Japanese models. Even now, before the Kennedy Round tariff reductions, which will lower duties from 17% to 8%, Japanese...
...popular theory is to blame all the Lampoon's woes upon last summer's issue, The Playboy Parody--a mercenary, bulky enterprise which netted over $150,000. According to lampologists, the poonies spent the next six months bickering over how to spend it all and still maintain their tax-exempt status. In the meantime they forget, or didn't care, about the high-quality humor of the good-old-day (which, by the way, not even the most ancient Cambridge observers can recall...