Word: suspectibility
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the most suspect: a Vermeer Self-Portrait that Bass tried to auction off at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet in 1962. Since only 30 unchallenged Vermeers are known to exist, a genuine Vermeer should have brought as much as $1,000,000. But there were so few bidders for Bass's Vermeer that he was forced to buy it back...
...specific effort to draw U.S. troops away from the U.S. Marine base of Khe Sanh, where Giap has assembled some 40,000 men for what could be the largest single battle of the entire war. Not all of Westmoreland's and Johnson's subordinates agree. The dissenters suspect Giap of intending just the opposite?of having created the threat to Khe Sanh as a diversion designed to draw U.S. forces away from cities and towns and thus give him a foothold in the populated areas that has consistently been denied...
...fair to suspect that the odyssey was aimed in part at placating Ulbricht, who has been reading some bad news with a Moscow dateline in the papers these days. When the Soviet ambassador handed a note to the Bonn government on the Berlin issue last week, the Kremlin seemed to be serving notice that it now wants to deal directly with Bonn on issues involving the divided city. In the past, it has almost always let Ulbricht present the East Bloc's terms. The note repeats Moscow's apparent willingness to recognize the four-power partition of Berlin...
Even so, Granite State voters are traditionally suspect of "outlanders." When Romney accosted a woman in a Persian lamb coat in frosty Manchester (pop. 93,700), she peered at him sharply and asked: "Who are you?" "I'm the Governor of the state of Michigan," he replied. She walked away unimpressed. It will require all of George Romney's considerable campaigning skill to overcome that sort of skepticism-and much more vigor to pursue the presidency beyond New Hampshire...
Finally, the Ad Hoc Committee's petition calls for the participation of the National Liberation Front in the future government of South Vietnam, while the Tuxedo Park delegation does not so much as hint at this possibility. The phrasing of the statement, in fact, leads one to suspect that in the eyes of its signers, communism is the worst of all evils, the elimination of which justifies almost any amount of cruelty: "putting the matter succinctly," they applaud American policy in Southeast Asia for having "bought time for some 200 million people to develop without their being ceaselessly confronted with...