Word: stucco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sale recorder to the computer and the tags the scanners read. Last June Litton completed the circle by acquiring a company that makes the adhesive for the tags. Plain Front. Despite Litton's mounting prosperity, the company's headquarters in Beverly Hills is an undistinguished, two-story stucco building without the usual trappings of corporate grandeur. Though Litton now employs 22,000 workers and has plants and laboratories in nine countries, it still has no table of organization-except, says Roy Ash, "in our heads." And there are no corporate standing committees, since "committees lead to agendas...
...entered the requiem phase last week with her announcement that their engagement is broken. Meanwhile, squaring out a complicated parallelogram, Actress Collins is dating Actor Robert Wagner, and Wagner's estranged wife, Actress Natalie Wood, is currently decorating the swimming pool at Warren Beatty's rented pink-stucco home in the hills above Sunset Strip...
...Minh Trail, this wasting war has been going on for seven years. Its object is the destruction of South Viet Nam's stubby, stubborn President Ngo Dinh Diem, 60, who runs the war, the government, and everything else in South Viet Nam from a massive desk in his yellow stucco Freedom Palace in Saigon. President Diem had fought the Communists in his country long before World War II. At war's end, he was arrested by them; his brother was shot by them. He has stood in their way ever since...
...late in the game to salvage Southeast Asia and drive the Reds back within their own borders. But given resolve, hard work, and the cooperation of the longtime Communist fighter in the yellow stucco palace, the U.S. hoped that it was not too late. "If we belong to the free world," says President Diem, "we must act. If not, why belong to the free world...
...achievements are impressive. From a desk in his big, yellow stucco Freedom Palace, he has fought the Communists 16 hours a day for seven years. In that time, he has built a nation from the wreckage of the Indo-Chinese war. His critics were sure he would fall within six months after he took office in 1954. Instead, he and his country have survived and thrived. Rice exports have quadrupled and currency reserves are at a record level. To Diem's credit is a successful land-reform program, lower rents for peasants, a boom in light industry; with the help...