Word: threats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Time of Testing. As long as some 28 divisions of Soviet troops continue to patrol beyond Czechoslovakia's borders in Eastern Europe, the threat of military intervention will never be far away. For the moment, however, Eastern Europe's crisis seems to be over. Faced with a solid wall of opposition within Czechoslovakia and the support of Dubček by other Communist leaders (both Tito and Ceauşescu are journeying to Prague this week for a show of solidarity with Dubček), the Soviets had little choice...
With Wallace drawing up to one-fifth of the straws in some polls, there is cause for concern. The Republicans are particularly worried because of his strength in the South. Boosters of both Nelson Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan are using the Wallace threat in their attempts to pry loose Richard Nixon's convention delegates. Florida's Republican Governor Claude Kirk is distributing an arithmetical bumper sticker: 2P÷ GW= H³ Translation: Two parties divided by George Wallace equals Hubert Horatio Humphrey. The Democrats, also, fear that Wallace could hurt them in blue-collar areas outside Dixie...
Offering a Pacifier. The Russians let it be known in embassies around the world that they were going to Czechoslovakia armed with five major points: 1) that internal Czechoslovak developments constitute a threat to socialism and the Warsaw Pact; 2) that the Czechoslovak Communist Party is losing or giving up its leading role; 3) that the party is overrun with "revisionists"; 4) that Czechoslovak journalists are against the party, the Warsaw Pact and the unity of the Communist camp; and 5) that if Dubček does not act himself, he can expect "international help"-meaning from Red army troops...
...dippy-hippie son, rousingly played by Beau Bridges, decides that the only way to keep the home fires burning is to fire up Ivy with a romantic interest. He recruits Poitier with the threat of exposing his illegal gambling operation. Says Sidney: "What makes you think I'd be a good stud?" Grins Beau: "All spades are superior at that sort of thing." Poitier naturally falls for Ivy, and they bounce from bed toward bridal suite, strewing their path with petals of social commentary...
...Prize Committee with V-Letter and Other Poems, a collection of tough-but-oh-so-gentle verse that balanced war disillusionment with hope for a humane future. The conviction behind Shapiro's courage has long been that organized cultural activities subvert "the fine arts"; he sees the latest threat in a corrupting coalition of irresponsible youth and commercial clowns. In To Abolish Children, the title essay in his assortment of literary trade pieces wrapped around "a fragment of a novel in progress," Shapiro quakes about "these freewheeling organisms equipped with electric guitars." But his arguments are smothered...