Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Angry Sheiks. Last week's turmoil began with the disclosure of Britain's trade figures for October, which showed a gross deficit of nearly $300 million, the worst such monthly gap in the country's history. That in itself was certainly ominous enough, but the context in which the deficit emerged made the figures far worse...
...Scant crops grow there, and scarcely any Vietnamese live there. The triple canopy of jungle foliage shadows the ground in a perpetual, skyless twilight. But, on the Highlands border where Laos and Cambodia meet, there is a valuable piece of real estate: a natural valley that funnels through the worst border mountains out into the gentler highland countryside rolling down to the sea. Astride the valley sits Dak To, until three weeks ago a dusty airstrip guarded by one U.S. battalion and a 500-man Vietnamese paramilitary unit in a Special Forces camp...
There was a time in the Ivy League when losers could usually console themselves that their defeat was likely to be measured by no more than a gentlemanly two, or at the worst, three touchdowns. Not this year. From the high-scoring tortures the Ivies are inflicting on one another, Eli, John and the other chaps don't live there any more...
Most schools seem to be fearing the worst. Stanford Graduate Division Dean Virgil Whitaker foresees a "potential catastrophic disruption" that could take 75% of the students now in their first year of graduate studies. Dartmouth's School of Business Administration figures that its total enrollment will drop at least 50%; graduate schools at Cornell and the University of Wisconsin peg the loss at about one-third; those at Yale, Berkeley and the University of Massachusetts place it at 25%. Nearly all assume that most of their new students will be either wom en, veterans, foreigners, men with physical ailments...
...growing spirit of factionalism is a clear danger to the cohesion of the Atlantic community," said Peterson. "At the very best, its projection into the future implies a slowdown in the economic growth rate of the free world and a particular slowdown in continental Europe. At worst, it raises the specter of accelerating restrictions on capital flow and along with it those notorious handmaidens of capital control: tariff walls, trade wars and isolationist trade blocs. While these projected consequences have unpleasant economic results, the political reverberations could be awesome. We are marching steadily toward a dangerous confrontation between the rich...