Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people and its armies, who are growing as desperate and afraid of one another as they are of the invasion. People are resigned and preparing for the worst. They seem to have forgotten what it was that fortified them all these years, if anything more than a basic trust in U.S. military strength. For Americans, it is like watching a skin transplant that didn't take disintegrating in front of them. For the South Vietnamese, it is something far worse. It is the loss of family and nation, and none of them seems to know what to do about...
...paralysis of command" and a "leadership vacuum." With the point settled in this manner, the Times next day invoked Clio, the goddess of history, and pleaded with every else to just forget about Vietnam. The dead wouldn't mind, the theory seemed to be, and the living could trust in the benevolence of God or the Times's well placed friends to see that the "scenes of blood and horror" that "stun the emotions and make imagination a beggar" didn't recur somewhere else. In the meantime, the Times suggested that Indochina be seen "as an earthquake, not a battlefield...
...begun issuing new short-term notes virtually every week simply to meet its payroll. The eleven major local banks that underwrite most of the bonds and notes are not only protesting but also squeezing the city to become prudent. Led by Ellmore Patterson, the chairman of Morgan Guaranty Trust, the bankers have ended their competitive bidding for new issues. They are now demanding detailed daily information on the city's financial condition. Municipal officials must sit down for protracted and embarrassing negotiations before the bankers will agree to market its securities...
...power," reports TIME'S Ruth Galvin, who attended last month's Woburn meeting with her husband John. "It sets out to make people face their deepest feelings about the contract that they made on their wedding day - and it succeeds. When they discover that they can trust each other even with their fears, the couples seem suddenly to comprehend the meaning of love." Indeed, the process is so popular that on a typical weekend, 115 Encounters are in operation in the U.S. The majority, including the Woburn meeting, are under the aegis of "Worldwide" Marriage Encounter, headquartered...
...young Italian girl (Olimpia Carlisi), having just emigrated to Switzer land, finds a job waiting on tables in a railroad cafe. Adriana has a quiet single-mindedness that could be mistaken for stubbornness. She also has a distinct pride in herself, a trust in her own heart, that makes her seem both vulnerable and accessible...