Word: widely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dinh Diem was over thrown in 1963. A succession of generals and military juntas, in or out of uniform, has ruled the country. Civilian ministers have held office but not authority. Premier Tran Van Huong, appointed in May 1968, was no exception. Last week the affable Huong, who enjoys wide popularity among the Vietnamese people, lost what little power he had. President Nguyen Van Thieu replaced him with General Tran Thien Khiem, 43, the hard-eyed minister in charge of police and pacification...
...favorite of these was the Illinois Institute of Technology's Crown Hall, where the giant, 220-ft.-wide roof, suspended on four trusses, hovers almost weightlessly over the huge inner space...
...profits from $6.6 million in 1966 to $12.2 million last year. In the same period, revenues rose only 18% to $231 million. The chain, which owns, manages or fran chises 67 hotels and inns in 56 U.S. cities, currently has an oc cupancy rate 10% above the industry-wide average of 61%. More remarkable, that occupancy level has been reached despite a 21% advance in Hilton's average room rate from $16.43 to $21.27. On the New York Stock Exchange, Hilton shares have reflected the company's fortunes by leaping from...
Computer ticketing is still in its infancy, but its convenience is beginning to catch the public's fancy. After 15 months of operations, Ticketron, the bigger of the two systems, has terminals in more than 300 locations from coast to coast. It offers seats to a wide variety of entertainment, including the U.S. Open Tennis matches in Forest Hills, N.Y., the Philadelphia Folk Festival in Old Pool Farm, Pa., the home games of six major-league baseball teams and most events at Manhattan's new Madison Square Garden. According to President John Quinn Jr., T.R.S. now sells...
...Felix P. Nelson) is slow-witted, humble and loving and Mom (Estelle Evans) is a gentle, worldly-wise philosopher who works as a domestic. Newt (Kyle Johnson) is about as likely an adolescent hero as Andy Hardy, waking Mom up in the middle of the night and listening wide-eyed as she dispenses such homespun homilies as "This town ain't all a good place and it ain't all a bad place. It's like the fruit on a tree -some's good, some...