Word: splits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unfortunately, this time the Defense Department, the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department are all split themselves. The State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research wears a gloomy mien that irks Secretary of State Dean Rusk and the optimistic deskmen of the East Asian bureau. In the Pentagon, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Defense Intelligence Agency are assembling a rosy picture of a seriously weakened enemy and a greatly improved South Vietnamese military machine, a vision shared by U.S. Commander General Creighton Abrams and his headquarters in Saigon. But the Defense Department's civilian...
Twofold Malaise. In the more formal arenas of politics, France's opposition parties have failed to exploit the Gaullist shortcomings. Reduced by the Gaullist landslide to numerical insignificance in the National Assembly, the parties have turned inward on themselves instead of ganging up on the Gaullists. Split over the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Communists are preoccupied by internal feuds. The Socialists, who are still in shock from their election drubbing, seem psychologically incapable of regaining their old fire. Declares Francois Mitterrand, president of the Federation of the Democratic Socialist Left: "The Federation is more a victim of itself...
...network's Sunday offering, as in the past, will be Public Broadcast Laboratory's weekly program. Monday is NET Journal, or documentary night. Tuesday will see NET Festival, a first-rate cultural series. Wednesday will be split among the monthly consumer series (Your Dollar's Worth), biweekly news backgrounders by New York Times staffers and various science programs. Thursday will feature NET Playhouse, a showcase for new U.S. playwrights and BBC productions. Extra time periods will be filled by specials, repeats and regional programming...
Along the way, Rachel falls in with a crooked straight man (Jason Robards) and a doleful comic (Norman Wisdom). The casting could not be bettered., Robards' crumpled countenance and larcenous glint make him the quintessential backstage villain. Wisdom, long a British stage star, recalls Keaton in his split-second spills and deadpan pantomime...
...Split by dissension, unsettled by frequent shifts in owners and coaches, and booed by their followers, the Bullets of old played a brand of ball that was each man for himself. More than anything, they needed the knack of playing together as a team. This year they seem to be doing just that, even while utilizing the highly individualistic talents of a superstar and the remarkable performance of a rookie. The star is Earl ("the Pearl") Monroe. The rookie is Westley Unseld, 22, a relatively small (6 ft. 7½ in.) center playing his first year in the N.B.A...