Word: travails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Caste System. Far worse trouble may lie ahead for Pompidou. That became evident when Georges Séguy, the Communist leader of France's 1,500,000-member Confédération Générale du Travail, warned that Pompidou's term of office "might well be short" because of labor unrest. Without mentioning Seguy by name, Pompidou responded with noticeable speed-and anger. He was convinced, he told his Cabinet last week, that workers "will not be duped and will not let themselves be drawn into irrelevant or violent actions." In any case...
...present stage of the war, the Song Chang incident seemed symptomatic of U.S. fatigue with the continuing bloodshed. It hardly presaged, however, any general collapse of battlefield will, as some early reactions to the report seemed to suggest. In the field, in fact, Alpha Company's travail was soon shrugged off as a curious but isolated incident born of unusual circumstances...
Throughout the Kennedy saga of success and tragedy, Rose Kennedy, matriarch of the family, has endured with an equanimity that has amazed outsiders and inspired her children. Last week, in the only interview she has given since the latest travail began, she told TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey of her beliefs and expectations...
...become "pioneers in a space project," the U.S. is poised to put men on the moon. Yet even as they stand on the threshold of success, officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are in a state of public stoicism and private gloom. Their triumph has become their travail: having progressed from orbiting a 31.5-lb. Explorer satellite to the Apollo lunar landing program, they are like showmen who brought off a spectacularly successful act and are now having trouble deciding upon an acceptable encore...
Keen academicians who have traced student travail from Berkeley to Columbia to the Quadrangle at Harvard, unofficially agree that the moment of truth is at hand--if Harvard frays then the entire U.S. university fabric could unravel...