Word: uns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once, Ho told a French acquaintance: "I am a professional revolutionary. I am always on strict orders. My itinerary is always carefully prescribed?and you can't deviate from the route, can you?" Ho never did. His successors are likely to follow the route as un-deviatingly as he did?for a while. But his very absence is bound to change the political map so completely that the men who follow him will be compelled to seek new, still unpredictable routes. The result will not necessarily bring comfort to the U.S., but North Viet Nam without Ho will...
...Clapp, president of Dial-Data Inc., of Newton, Mass., predicted "national telephone blackouts" by 1972 unless the telephone companies take faster action to install the lines needed for transmission of a growing deluge of computerized data. Though his fears may be valid, Clapp's criticism is a bit un fair. The computer time-sharing industry has expanded much faster than even computer experts predicted, and it is still growing at a rate of more than 40% a year...
Famous prima donnas are apt to regard a bout with contemporary opera as roughly equivalent to a gargle with sulphuric acid. Modern composers, singers say, don't know how to write. They ruin voices by demanding odd and un-vocal sounds. Though this attitude is widespread, there is evidence that it is less a matter of fact than fashion. Birgit Nilsson, though she sings no contemporary opera at all, points out that composers are usually ahead of performers. Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, she observes, was abandoned as un-performable, "yet nowadays no dramatic soprano can be considered...
After one of the longest political crises in its postwar history, Italy last week had a government again. It was headed by Mariano Rumor, the same man who 32 days earlier had seen his coalition of Socialists and Christian Democrats fall apart (TIME, July 18). Un able to reconstruct the old relationship because of a schism among the Socialists, Rumor this time built a monocolore, or one-party government from his own Christian Democrats...
...Philadelphia city official charges that the Penn-Central, for example, has no budget for maintaining the 248 cars that haul 32,500 riders daily into that city. The railroad denies it, but is un able to supply any budget figures. Bos ton's creaky commuter lines - the New Haven and the Boston & Maine - re quire huge state subsidies...