Word: virtualization
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...ultimate symbol of Brooklyn's disinstitutionalization is the virtual disappearance of The Accent, that ebullient glottal goulash of old Dutch, Yiddish, Irish, Italian and perhaps even Mohawk. "Only 1% of the kids are still dese, dem and dose types," says Speech Professor Bernard Barrow of Brooklyn College. "It is very difficult today to know a Brooklyn boy from a Bronx boy." Even The Bridge has lost its mystique. Not for three years, at least, the police report somewhat sadly, has a con man tried to sell...
...amass a fortune of "not less than $7,000,000," and most of the money was in Ghana. Part of the earnings had come from his printing company and two daily newspapers in Accra, but Nkrumah's biggest moneymaker was the National Development Corporation, which held a virtual monopoly on Ghana's import trade and was the only automobile insurance company that Ghanaian civil servants were allowed to use. Unless he could get his hands on the money, Nkrumah might quickly starve to death. All he had with him when he flew to Peking fortnight...
...expensive troop commitment in Yemen? Some old Middle East hands thought it might be merely a yearning for the good old days when he was constantly embroiled in international intrigue. They suggest that President Johnson may have stirred him up by sending Averell Harriman to Cairo with a virtual invitation to join the Viet Nam peace effort. "Lyndon's gone and dragged Nasser away from the fireplace and onto the balcony again," sighs one American expert. "Once you get him out there, it's a helluva job to get him back to the fireplace again...
...Bruin individual victory which did not result from Harvard's virtual default came in the pole vault. Crimson sophomore Steve Schoonover, having an extremely poor day, cleared only 12 feet for third place. Brown's Les Jones won the vault...
After nearly two weeks under virtual siege, Brigade Commander Colonel Lynnwood Johnson (whose men call him "The Big Puu"-Hawaiian for mountain-in tribute to his 6-ft. 5-in. stature) struck back. "I'm going to level those woods into a golf course," he said, waving his long arm at a dense patch of scrub spitting heavy Viet Cong fire. In three days his troops painfully pushed their perimeter out 2,000 ft. in each direction, followed closely by bulldozers slapping down trees and demolition and chemical teams fumigating and firing tunnels. By week...