Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that people keep telephoning me, asking if I can help them. People on the street are so worried. I don't know why. I don't know why the poor people so fear Communism. Why didn't they go to the other side? Naturally, all the upper class would like to get away. The rich and those with connections with the government are the ones in danger. The Communists want to destroy a class...
Cambodia's former President Lon Nol reached Hawaii three weeks ago. He and members of his retinue are fixing to stay. He is negotiating to buy a $103,000 two-story, four-bedroom home in Mariner's Cove (pop. 400), an upper-middle-class suburb east of Honolulu. He should have no trouble paying off a mortgage. On the day before he left his homeland, the National Bank of Cambodia reportedly asked Manhattan's Irving Trust Co., with which it has a correspondent relationship, to pay $1 million to the order of Lon Nol. Irving Trust...
Intricate Installation. Another ingenious technique for treating patients with ailing hearts has been developed by surgeons in New Orleans. Doctors had assumed that Suzette Marie Creppel, 17, would eventually have to undergo open-heart surgery to correct an atrial septal defect-a hole in the wall separating the two upper chambers of her heart. But Drs. Terry King and Noel Mills of the Ochsner Foundation Hospital decided to try to plug the leak with two tiny, round patches-and without surgery...
Efforts to control and classify the population in some areas are already well along. In Danang, Communist officials have instituted a system of color-coded identity cards. People under investigation on suspicion of upper-level ties to Saigon were given dark red cards. Police and lesser suspects got light red cards. Girls, young men and laborers were issued yellow cards. Those over 50 who were not under suspicion received white cards. White-carders can travel anywhere within the Communist zone, while yellow-carders require a 48-hour wait for permission. Red-carders are forbidden to travel at all. The populace...
...ambition of rising beyond ghetto life and his job as a clerk--the hope which makes waking up in the morning worthwhile. Neither Cross's script nor Davis's acting adequately portray this other side of Joyce, the loving wife whom Simple treasures even as he mockers her upper-class pretensions...