Word: van
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Late last year Ky fired Delta Commander General Dang Van Quang, a Southerner and a friend of General Go's, who also bore a strong aroma of corruption. He hesitated about firing Co only because any outright dismissal might precipitate an internal Cabinet dispute. As a Southerner, Co could easily cry prejudice if Northerner Ky canned him. As Ky remarked to one American recently: "Before I can fire even a driver, I have to check with eight generals and their families...
AMERICA HURRAH. Playwright Jean-Claude van Itallie casts a searing eye and scathing glance at the contemporary American landscape for an inventive, rewarding evening of modern theater...
...mammoth outpouring of Great Society legislation in the 89th Congress. Since the last session, however, he has grown noticeably more emaciated, irascible and heedless of the mood of Congress. After McCormack's defeat on the floor vote that took away Powell's seat, California Democrat Lionel Van Deerlin, a leader of the movement to discipline the Harlem Representative, approached McCormack to explain his action. The Speaker turned away with a disgusted "humph...
...trend: a sweeping return to the 1930s, with its love of overstuffed furniture (one possible source of inspiration: late night replays on TV of the '30s movies) and the bright chrome chairs, tables and settees initiated by such Bauhaus architect-designers as Marcel Breuer and Mies van der Rohe; there was even a revival of the laminated blond wood chairs made popular by Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto in the 1940s. What made the trend significant is that such furniture comes not from the avantgarde, relatively low-volume makers such as Knoll Associates and Herman Miller, but from mass manufacturers...
Married. Princess Margriet, 23, third daughter of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands; and Pieter van Vollenhoven, 27, lawyer son of a Dutch sail manufacturer, whom she met at college; in The Hague...