Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Materials included: game board of various colored squares to be spread out on the stage, a few playing pieces, and lying around till needed: a baby bonnet, an adolescent's edition of The Prophet, a college fraternity sweater, a martini glass, etc. and various packs of white opportunity cards, yellow penalty cards, and pink maturity cards. For the Games Master: a bell, a buzzer, and a whistle...
Strangely enough, Huntington concludes that military strength alone will not be able to spread Saigon's control to all areas of the country. That, he says, "would require a much larger and more intense military and pacification effort than is currently contemplated by Saigon and Washington." The rest of the article then argues for some form of political cooperation between the Thieu regime and the NLF, which Huntington suggests can best be achieved initially on a local level. "Such a system might be labeled federal, confederal, pluralistic, decentralized--but whatever the label, it would reflect the varied sources of political...
Female chauvinist sexploitation will reach a new level of some kind in the April issue of British Cosmo magazine with its first male nude pinup -a center spread of Germaine Greer's husband wearing nothing but a convenient shadow. Paul du Feu, 36, a London construction worker, was married almost four years ago to Women's Liberator Greer-though they separated after only three weeks, says Germaine, because he wanted her "to be a wife." How does Paul feel about giving his all to the pages of a women's magazine...
...Office of Economic Opportunity decided to organize a major study of performance contracting during the 1970-71 school year. It authorized up to $7.2 million for the project, spread among six educational firms and conducted in 18 school districts in both big cities and rural areas. The subjects of the year-long experiment were 13,000 children in grades one to three and seven to nine...
...architect and another family or two, as federal, provincial and local governments quarreled over who was to administer it. In February 1968, the federal government's Central Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) took it over, and a series of bungles began. Rents were pegged at exorbitant levels. Rumors spread about rat infestation and inadequate heat. Understandably, prospective tenants stayed away. Then CMHC cut rents-twice. People moved in and dispelled the rumors. As the two original clusters began to fill, work started on a third. Now, all three clusters-158 apartments-are fully occupied, and there are more than...