Word: spent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What enabled the revolt to break out so quickly and brutally was the rigidity of the university structure, which knew only one way of change-rupture. The government and not the faculty controls the university. They decide everything from how much money is spent to what time the classes are given. There are no "intermediate institutions"-no student-faculty committees which can often muffle and absorb a conflict as at Harvard. If anything goes wrong it is brought straight to the ministry. In a system with such little leeway for evolution, any change was a radical change and any serious...
...Matter of Time. For all the progress, there is serious doubt about the ability of ARVN to stand on its own. A Vietnamese who spent four years in uniform and now practices law in Saigon predicted glumly: "They will not hold without the Americans standing behind them. They will collapse, unit by unit. I predict that you will see entire units deserting and going over to the enemy...
...Louisiana Kingfish Huey Long's political empire; of a heart attack; in Baton Rouge. A onetime New Orleans barbershop manager, Weiss was the man to see about practically everything once his friend Long became Governor in 1928; he ladled out patronage, determined how party funds would be spent -or misspent-and served as Long's most trusted adviser. So entrenched did Weiss become that he remained a power after Long's 1935 assassination-until 1940, when he was finally put behind bars for mail fraud...
...Unruh and Actor Darren McGavin. One of Vice President Spiro Agnew's daughters was suspended from Washington's exclusive National Cathedral School for three days last spring after an investigation was held to determine if she had been smoking pot. University of Indiana Sociologist Alfred R. Lindesmith, who has spent nearly 35 years studying drug use, contends with a measure of grim humor: "If a kid goes to college these days and never develops an interest in marijuana, he's got a problem and you should worry. He may be a loner or not accepted by his peers...
...cast is merely reflecting the film's deeply split personality. Scriptwriter-Novelist William Goldman (Boys and Girls Together) purportedly spent six years researching his subjects, yet he provides them with neither background nor a sense of their own transitional time. Director George Roy Hill abruptly annihilates the nostalgia with a scat-singing sound track by Burt Bacharach at his most cacophonous. Coupled with a mod love song, Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head-wedged in while Newman does stunts on a bicycle -the score makes the film as absurd and anachronistic as the celebrated Smothers Brothers cowboy who played...