Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...September, Newsweek's Saigon Bureau Chief Everett G. Martin had some harsh words for the Vietnamese. In a two-page piece for his magazine, Martin charged that the Vietnamese troops performed so poorly on their own that they should be completely integrated with U.S. forces. The U.S., he went on, should also take a much more active role in governing South Viet Nam, from channeling all economic aid to ousting corrupt Vietnamese officials. "What right do the Vietnamese have to expect full sovereignty," he asked, "while depending for their very survival on U.S. support...
Abstract & Concrete. Gilmore be gan his law career late. He went to Boston Latin and to Yale (where he was a junior Phi Beta Kappa), got a doctorate in Romance languages after writing a dissertation on the 19th century French poet Stéphane Mallarmé that is still quoted by scholars. He became a teacher almost inevitably. "If one takes Romance languages, one teaches," he says. But after four years, "I couldn't stand it any longer." At 29, he went into law "because it seemed an available thing. Soon, however, I began to find it challenging...
...only fitting that the last day of an upset-filled college football season should be filled with upsets. The only game that went according to the polls was the Rose Bowl, and even that took a remarkable performance by All-America Halfback O. J. Simpson (who carried the ball 25 times for 128 yds. and two touchdowns) before top-ranked Southern Cal could eke out a 14-3 victory over a stubborn band of sophomores from Indiana. In the Sugar Bowl, thrice-beaten, unranked Louisiana State spotted unbeaten, No. 6-ranked Wyoming a 13-0 halftime lead, then bounced back...
Color & Consent. It was a hot New Year's Day when Clive Haupt and his bride of three months went with friends to Fish Hoek Beach. Haupt played pickup rugby, then lay down to rest. Suddenly a friend called that Haupt was ill, with frothy blood coming from his mouth. From a local hospital, he was shuttled fast to the better-equipped Victoria Hospital, where doctors concluded that he had suffered a stroke-a massive brain hemorrhage. They saw little hope that he could survive. But since Haupt had apparently been fit, his heart was probably in good condition...
Died. Don Quinn, 67, creator of radio's old Fibber McGee and Molly show; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. " 'Tain't funny, McGee," said Molly to her roguish husband. Well, it was-so funny, in fact, that the line went into the language, and the nittering, nattering couple at 79 Wistful Vista enjoyed one of the longest lives in radio comedy, from 1935 to 1956, when they died a natural death...