Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Critics had unanimously panned this season's TV fare for its consistent drivel, and so, surely a show with lines like "Stake out that art gallery like you would a circus tent!" will not go unnoticed. Commissioner O'Hara says, "I don't know who he is behind that mask of his, but I do know when we need him, and we need him now!" ABC's president must have said the same thing...
...Year Problem. In the process, American troops gave an incalculable lift to South Viet Nam's disheartened people and divided government. And, important as that was, they helped preserve a far greater stake than South Viet Nam itself. As the Japanese demonstrated when they seized Indo-China on the eve of World War II, whoever holds the peninsula holds the gate to Asia. Were Hanoi to conquer the South
Plainly, nothing had changed the issues at stake in Viet Nam. With characteristic bluntness, Dean Rusk summarized the situation for a friend: "All that's left is the question of what we do about North Viet Nam's attempt to take over South Viet Nam by force. We're down to the bare bone. Do we stand aside and let them take...
...world has both favored and feared the philosophers' answers. Thomas Aquinas became a saint, Aristotle was tutor to Alexander the Great, and Voltaire was a confidant of kings. But Socrates was put to death, and Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake. Nowadays, Historian Will Durant has noted, no one would think of doing that-"not because men are more delicate about killing, but because there is no need to kill that which is already dead...
...Herald plans to continue the fund drive for his orphanage. Said the paper's executive editor, Father Elmo Romagosa: "Captain Rod has done more than launch a campaign for the Vietnamese children. He has made thousands of persons in communities throughout Louisiana feel that they have a personal stake in Viet...