Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swift change indicates the fickle nature of popularity. The figures by themselves prove little 15 months before Election Day, but they are a symptom of Johnson's deep political troubles. The wars, Asian and urban, and such of their echoes as higher taxes, are not likely to disappear soon, and Congress shows little willingness to ease the Administration's difficulties. Top Democrats are openly perturbed. "I can't say things have been worse," says one National Committee official. Michigan's state party chairman, Zolton Ferency, predicts a Johnson defeat next year if Viet Nam and racial...
...just before Nigeria's federal troops, led by Major General Yakubu Gowon, invaded Ojukwu's Eastern Region six weeks ago. Ojukwu was slow to make good his threat. But last week, having fought his attackers to a standstill, he was ready to take the offensive. In a swift twelve-hour drive, he captured the federal government's oil-rich Midwestern State (pop: 2,500,000) with impressive ease...
...Logic Factories. One consequence of such snags is the swift rise of software service and consulting companies, which offer high-level technical support, such as systems design or programming to meet individual specifications. By one estimate, there are now some 2,500 of these logic factories, the bulk of them one-to three-man shops. At least two dozen are publicly owned corporations. The largest, Los Angeles' Computer Sciences Corp., has grown from a two-man firm in 1959 into a $37 million-a-year enterprise with 2,500 employees and 156 customers...
...morning after its swift and stunning victory in the "Six Day War," Israel awoke to vastly wider horizons and vastly expanded responsibilities. Suddenly the writ of Jerusalem had been extended over lands three times Is rael's prewar size, and over hostile Arab populations amounting to 1,330,000 people-nearly half Israel's own. How long would Israel want to hang onto such problems...
...discarded wife, the girl friend whose family he once imprisoned, the aging professor whose career he ruined. In fact, Author Mnacko's outrage goes deeper than politics: with Swiftian anger, he condemns the victim as well as the tyrant. As a writer, however, he is no Swift. The novel is at times clumsy and dated: conversations are imagined by the narrator, glances between characters are supposed to be significant enough to stand for a paragraph or so of exposition, flashbacks fly off like the calendar pages in an old movie. But contrivances do not obscure Mnacko's conclusion...