Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...High National Council, as the U.S. had demanded. Moreover the "solution," as usual, only papered over again South Viet Nam's myriad divisions. Even as it was being signed, word spread that a new coup of junior officers was becoming increasingly jealous of the Young Turks' swift promotions. Inevitably, they were dubbed "Baby Turks." Some of the brass, frustrated in their desire for power, were flirting with the Buddhists, who in turn kept up their own campaign to overthrow Huong. Once again the talk of coup was on every...
...Macy's shopper can buy an iguana ($2.49), a painting by Joan Miró, a heart-shaped mattress, an old-fashioned stiff collar, a complete set of Tom Swift books, fresh Beluga caviar, and 900 Macy's private-label items, the last at prices 10% to 15% below national brands. Macy's has a shop that sells nothing but candles, another devoted solely to Oriental rugs, still others dealing only in antiques or plastic flowers. It also has its own prescription drugstore, hardware and auto-accessories shops, theater club, travel agent, and a jewelry store watched over...
...orders to knock down telephone and power poles to convert the main street into a landing pad for rescue helicopters. In the Indian reservation towns of Hoopa and Willow Creek, the whole population fled to the high-ground school auditorium. In other towns, the rampaging waters were too swift even for the fleet est, and people died in rivers that once were streets...
...FOUNDING FATHER, by Richard Whalen. The facts of Joe Kennedy's career-the fortunes he made in oil and real estate and his swift conversion of money into power for himself and his sons-need no embellishment; his life is a blueprint for the wheeler-dealer and the kingmaker...
...California Institute of Technology, which last week eliminated "freshman grades. Caltech's ferociously smart freshmen will still take exams and do graded homework assignments, but at the end of the freshman year students will simply pass or fail. With grades "unattainable," Faculty Chairman Ernest H. Swift hopes that freshmen "will find it easier to concentrate on the content of their course. This, in turn, may enable them to make more sensible choices as to the investment of their time and energy...