Word: starting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wood had trouble finding sources of money to replace the CIA foundation grants, but Sherburne was convinced that the CIA tie had to be broken. He went to the agency, which reluctantly agreed to start phasing out its support. Wood, therefore, was faced with a whopping shortage. More important, he could not explain it to anyone who was not "witty." In particular, he could not explain it to the National Supervisory Board when it met in Illinois for the 1966 summer congress. The NSB, naturally, found Wood incapable of doing his job, and decided he had to go. They...
...From the start, Lyndon Johnson had been worried that Hanoi was less interested in launching talks than in pressuring the U.S. into a permanent bombing pause that would allow the North to resupply its forces without interference. As it turned out, Hanoi used the Tet pause to do just that, mobilizing 2,200 trucks and 1,572 vessels to speed between 25,000 and 30,000 tons of materiel to the South. That is enough to enable the 282,000 Communist troops engaged in the war, who lately have been averaging only one or two days of fighting a month...
...more who found their first taste of power too heady to listen to Chou's orders. Since the Cultural Revolution began, complained the New China News Agency, "wrong tendencies have emerged in the revolutionary ranks"-specifically because, once they have taken power, too many of the Maoist rebels start behaving exactly like those they have replaced...
Most universities start out as small liberal arts colleges, adding more advanced programs, courses and departments as they expand. Not Manhattan's New School for Social Research...
...also hangs heavy in the air of Hollywood's newest psychedelic store, The Infinite Mind, which is barely a month old. Proprietor Eldon Taylor, 25, insists that The Infinite Mind is "really just a toy shop for teen-agers," but he provides the ideal station from which to start a trip. Light boxes around the walls blink and fade and oscillate, floodlights of red, blue, yellow and green flicker on a paisley-patterned tapestry while the sounds of the Beatles or Ravi Shankar boom from strategically located loudspeakers...