Word: strife
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...Rochester and Buffalo, 75 miles apart in upstate New York, Republicans and Democrats met for the election-year business of selecting candidates. Two days later the Democrats left Buffalo tattered and torn with party strife (see below), and beaming Republicans took dead aim on November with a unified front for an appealing ticket. The top Republican nominees: for Governor, square-jawed Millionaire Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, 50, of Manhattan and Westchester County; for U.S. Senator, white-thatched U.S. Representative Kenneth Keating, 58, of upstate Rochester...
...Curb Propaganda. "An end to the fomenting from without of civil strife" is necessary to Middle East stability. The U.N. should undertake to monitor "inflammatory" radio broadcasts "directed across the national frontiers" in the troubled Middle East. The President avoided naming names, but every delegate in the Assembly knew that he had in mind the recklessly subversive outpourings of Gamal Abdel Nasser's vitriolic Radio Cairo and Radio Damascus...
Cause of the strife was a medical dispute that is symptomatic of modern India : should aspiring healers be taught the medicine of the ancient, mystical and slow-to-change East or the medicine of the modern, scientific, restlessly changeful West? India has more licensed practitioners of native medical systems (96,000) than of Western medicine (92,000); the vast majority of these engage in ayurveda (Sanskrit for "the science of life") and bitterly resent the encroachment of Western medicine...
...despite the landing of foreign troops, despite perhaps as many as 2,000 killed since May, despite an economic depression brought on by the strife, Lebanese politicians were still loath to put aside their petty ambitions and prejudices for the settlement that the vast bulk of their countrymen wanted. At week's end Premier Saeb Salam, self-styled "leader of Beirut rebels," who keeps a sign on his sandbagged command post, "Appointments 9 to 1 and 4 to 7," announced that the elections ought not to be held as long as Chamoun remained President, and "aggressor" troops remained...
Covering Middle East hot spots through a glass darkly, high-spirited Journalist Randolph Churchill, son of Sir Winston, managed to set a short-tour record (45 minutes) for strife-torn Beirut. Lumbering into the Palm Beach Hotel after curfew, Randy demanded 1) a room, 2) whisky, 3) an explanation from the British embassy's second secretary for not meeting him at the airport. When the secretary explained about curfew, Churchill decided to go higher, hung up with "I'll telephone the ambassador-you're not much use." Hoisting another round, he ran afoul of an aide...