Word: splits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...derail Nixon in 1960 and his failure to back Barry Goldwater in 1964 still rankle among party workers. Said one Midwestern G.O.P. state chairman: "If Rocky reaches for the nomination, a thousand people will try to cut off his hand." Consequently, Rockefeller's advisers and sympathizers are seriously split on whether he should take the moderates' baton from Romney soon after New Hampshire and plunge into the primaries or wait silently for the convention. If he is to travel the primary route, he must make up his mind a scant week after New Hampshire, for March...
...about who was the strategist behind the Communists' desperate thrust: North Viet Nam's Defense Minister General Vo Nguyen Giap, the charismatic victor over the French at Dienbienphu in 1954 and creator of the North Vietnamese army. In its surprise, its boldness, the sweep of its planning and its split-second orchestration, the general offensive bore all the unmistakable marks of Giap's genius. All the evidence indicated, in fact, that probably for the first time since the war against the French, Giap was personally directing the entire campaign in South Viet...
...drumhead trial in Havana's La Cabaña fortress, Escalante and 36 of his fellow conspirators were found guilty of treason and sentenced to prison terms ranging from one to 15 years (Escalante got the maximum). Though Fidel himself kept silent, he did not seem ready to split with Russia and lose his $1,000,000-a-day dole. Cuban Minister Without Portfolio Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, speaking for Castro, called for ideological peace talks with Moscow; after all, he noted, it was only realistic "that we should bring forward our criticisms of what we consider errors...
...reduction of skepticism and distrust by nationals is substantial. This year, perhaps half of all Volunteers will be at least partly trained in-country; in 1969, the great majority. The Peace Corps has now largely gained the insights and the technical tools, such as language and training, to split the historic syndrome of the American abroad; to identify his useful and constructive elements, to reject the insensitive and the arrogant. That is has taken the best of seven years to do so is a poor argument for a return to imperialism or to isolation...
...breakdown in family technology since the days when the arts of burping and diapering, of baking, basting and berry-bottling, were passed directly from mother to daughter. Similarly, today's boy is caught early in the educational status mill, so that by the time he acquires a split-level of his own, he has failed to learn from Dad, and so must learn from a book, the management of hammer, nails, plane, saw, screwdriver and puttymanship needed to keep the place from falling about his and his loved ones' ears...