Word: virtualization
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...morning of Nov. 30, 22 years ago, a Soviet land-sea-air offensive against Finland ended prolonged negotiations over Soviet demands for Finnish territory. Numerically overpowering Russian troops expected to overrun Finland in days, but heroic resistance by skillful, ski-equipped troops fought the enemy to a virtual standstill until the final collapse of the Finns 16 weeks later...
That is how news of the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize reached Albert John Luthuli, 62, ex-Zulu chieftain, president of the banned African National Congress, and since 1959, by decree of the racist South African government, a virtual exile from his people. Awarded a year late because of the exhaustive search into his qualifications by the Nobel Committee, the honor was bracketed with the 1961 prize, posthumously awarded to the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold...
...Harvard product who headed the State Department's Latin American Affairs Division at 29, as Under Secretary of State became the confidant of Family Friend Franklin Roosevelt and served as personal presidential emissary on fruitless prewar missions to Hitler and Mussolini, only to be forced into resignation-and virtual retirement-in 1943, when Secretary of State Cordell Hull delivered a "him or me" ultimatum to F.D.R.; in Bernardsville, N.J. Condemned by critics as the embodiment of traditional striped-pants diplomacy, Welles was widely admired in Latin America for his successful fight to end armed U.S. intervention in Latin affairs...
...more than three years, almost unnoticed, and with dwindling success, the men who launched the "Colonels' Revolt" in 1958 have held out in Indonesia's remote jungles. But last week the revolt finally spluttered to virtual extinction. While President Sukarno preened himself among his neutralist peers in Belgrade, out of the jungle of northern Sumatra marched Rebel "Premier" Sjafruddin Prawiranegra to give up the fight. Surrendering with him were 34 other top officials of the rebel government...
Within days Diem was bound for Saigon with France's sanction to form a Cabinet. It would be no easy task. Diem had been out of the country for four years, had become a virtual unknown among the mass of his countrymen. Perhaps the sum total of his national support was at Saigon's airport when he stepped off the plane: five hundred personal friends, Catholic priests, village dignitaries and former colleagues in the old French colonial government...