Word: van
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CASE OF LIBEL (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Van Heflin, Lloyd Bridges, José Ferrer, and E. G. Marshall provide the courtroom drama in this TV adaptation of the Broadway play based on Attorney Louis Nizer's 1962 bestseller, My Life in Court...
...allies had not only dominated the battlefield but had also seized the political initiative with the successful series of elections last year that culminated in the installation of Nguyen Van Thieu as civilian President under a new constitution. Increasingly, the bulk of the war was being fought on South Viet Nam's peripheries, leaving a virtual vacuum in the countryside that allied pacification efforts were moving to fill. A dramatic demonstration of Communist power and prowess was required. To Giap, the countryside general offensive seemed tailormade for the task...
Among his major campaign promises, South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu pledged himself to root out government corruption at the national and provincial levels. Last week Edward Kennedy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Refugees and a recent visitor to Viet Nam, delivered his own progress report on Thieu's efforts. He painted a grim picture. "The government of South Viet Nam is infested with corruption," Ken nedy told the World Affairs Council of Boston. "It is almost impossible to go to Viet Nam and speak with any can did American or South Vietnamese citi...
Similarly, the reader of nonfiction in 1922 kept ahead of the novel nut. H. G. Wells's The Outline of History and Hendrik Willem Van Loon's The Story of Mankind led the nonfiction list that year. The top novel was If Winter Comes, by the leading bleeder of the year, A.S.M. Hutchinson, whose This Freedom was No. 7, followed by Edith M. Hull's The Sheik. Sinclair Lewis' great period piece, Babbitt, did make the first ten, sharing last place with a forgotten field of corn called Helen of the Old House, by Harold Bell...
...Harvard Band announced the election of the following officers for 1968-69: Robert Whittemore '69, manager; Donald Tuckwiller '70, co-student conductor; Timothy Feige '70, treasurer; Michael Silver '70, alumni relations director; William van Arsdall '70, record manager; Daniel O'-Connell '70, concert master...