Word: patching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...personal journalism has its dangers, warns Fleming. It is based on the "more or less tacit consensus of the intellectual establishment that objectivity does not exist. Hence the personal comment which attempts to do no more than state one man's point of view on a certain patch of experience." "Pure objectivity," he says, is probably an unattainable ideal. "But this does not mean that it should be abandoned any more than we should stop trying to tell each other the truth because an awful lot of people in this world are liars...
Federal forces have encircled Biafra, the former eastern region of Nigeria. They have occupied its major cities, blockaded its coasts, and pushed an already-overcrowded population of more than 8,000,000-among them 4,500,000 refugees-into a patch of bush and swampland that is one-fourth the size of Biafra's former territory. The Biafrans, most of whom are Ibo tribesmen, fear that they will be massacred just as thousands of their kinsmen in northern Nigerian cities were killed two years ago. Many are starving, but they refuse to come out of hiding in the bush...
George Wallace's third-party quest for the presidency has captured so many hearts and spleens that by last week he was already on the November ballot in 16 states. Yet a briar patch was growing in his own home state. His reputation is built not only on the sands of segregation but on a claim of bedrock honesty as well. "The books are always open," he liked to brag about his days as Alabama Governor. Now an angry Alabamian has opened the books in federal court...
...brush of scandal is tarring Wallace cronies with a charge that asphalt to patch Alabama roads costs the state $2,000,000 a year more than it ought to, with the implication that some of this money goes into Wallace campaign coffers. Claiming that it was unable to sell any of its asphalt to the state, the Waugh Asphalt Co. sued Alabama Finance Director Seymore Trammell, who manages Wallace's presidential campaign as well as state purchasing, along with 24 firms and state-appointed "sales agents." It charged them with rigging prices, promoting monopoly and breaking state and federal...
...shipped into the city and thus require transport that could otherwise be used for war goods. North Viet Nam has only recently solved the problem of food shortages, and Ho would not be likely to dismantle a successful system now. The North is, however, using the pause to patch up roads, rails and bridges continually hit by U.S. bombs...