Word: remains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many questions about My Lai remain unanswered. Who had ordered the attack on the hamlet, which was apparently designated as a "free-fire" zone? What exactly were the orders? The answers may come out in a court-martial; Fort Benning Commander Major General Orwin Talbott is expected to announce a decision this week on whether Lieut. Galley is to be tried. Even so, time has already erased much of the evidence...
...before Joseph Kennedy's death, plans had been completed for the management of his family's holdings in future generations. Only a bare outline of these complex arrangements is likely to be made public through his will. The closely guarded secrets of the Kennedys' finances will remain in the hands of a small group of totally discreet professional managers operating from Suite 3021 in Manhattan's Pan Am Building. The fortune, used in the past with unrivaled success to achieve the power and prestige of the nation's highest offices, will henceforth be deployed according...
...calamitous decline. For years he has effectively closed it off from the outside world, granting visas to tourists and journalists for stays of only 24 hours. Lately, in a general relaxation that included the release of most of his 2,000 political prisoners, he has allowed visitors to remain in Burma for three days instead of only one. After such a visit, TIME Correspondent David Greenway sent this report...
...write on the eve of the Yale game, for a variety of reasons. If Harvard loses, it might spell the untimely end for Mr. Yoviensin, and if I am to remain chivalrous I should throw my punches before my adversary is down and out. If Harvard wins, then the alumni and overseers might think that the season is salvaged and keep the smiling and hoping Mr. Yoviesin...
Some solid achievements remain, of course. The American Language (and its supplements) has justly become a classic. Mencken's lively journalistic talents invigorated a generation of practitioners. The American Mercury waged brisk verbal war against Bostonian cultural fuddy-duddyism. The green cover of the Mercury, in fact, was once the badge of the campus intellectual. The views expressed seem far from revolutionary today, but they are more trenchant and readable than Marcuse or Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung...