Word: swiftness
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...foreign policy crisis of Brezhnev's tenure. It is not often today that Moscow's diplomats have thrown in their faces the challenge, "What about Czechoslovakia?" Somehow, the long, vain American attempt to prop up an unpopular government in Saigon made much of the world forget the swift Soviet crushing of a popular government in Prague. One by one in the Brezhnev years, Soviet-aided North Viet Nam, East Germany and Cuba have gained international acceptance. True, Moscow was a loser in Chile, but the Kremlin has reason to be pleased about Communist gains in Italy and Portugal...
...Senate are expected to begin debates on bills that deal with prices of the nation's two most vital fuels. Unfortunately, the debates probably will throw into sharp contrast the diametrically opposed approaches of the White House and the Democrats who control Congress. The Ford Administration favors relatively swift abolition of fuel-price controls in the belief that high prices will force conservation and stimulate domestic production. Last Saturday, Ford announced that he will send to Congress this week a price-decontrol plan for domestic oil. The Democrats, fearful of the inflationary impact of decontrol...
Hoping for a triumphant fall opening on Broadway, Playwright Tennessee Williams instead suffered a swift summer closing in Boston. Williams' The Red Devil Battery Sign had David Merrick as co-producer and Anthony Quinn in the leading role as a brain-damaged mariachi. The play lasted less than three weeks before local critics turned off the lights. "Dreadful," snipped the Boston Globe of Williams' first drama since Outcry in 1973, "a flickering shadow of his former self." The Boston Herald American said the play "teeters and totters eerily between true tragedy and mawkish melodrama." Complaining that...
...disciplinarian Japanese military academy in the pre-1945 years when Japan was still the colonial ruler of Korea. Profoundly influenced by Japan's passionate prewar brand of patriotism, Park transformed it into a fervent allegiance to Korea. He joined the new Korean army in 1946 and enjoyed a swift rise, interrupted only once, in 1948; ironically, for so militant an antiCommunist, he was tried and acquitted of being a Communist agent...
...action is swift, and the stakes can reach several hundred dollars. Regulars bent on a killing will make apparently fatal concessions. Bus Driver Dave Brown, a Palmer Park legend, used to play hackers while standing on one foot, a trick he could perform and still come close to ducking the card...