Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours later, the Americans, now grown to two badly mauled companies, set up a defensive perimeter atop a hill-enough to hold off the far bigger V.C. force until artillery and tactical-air support could move in. At last the Viet Cong stopped fighting. The pause was due to virtual annihilation: some 400 to 600 of their estimated 700 at tacking force were dead...
...Excuses. Yet as always, the G.O.P. came apart in the primary, in which Wayne Dumont, a small-town lawyer and state senator, emerged as the party's gubernatorial candidate. To the virtual exclusion of all other potential issues, Dumont seized on the case of Eugene Genovese, a Marxist profes sor of history at the state university of Rutgers, who had declared that he would welcome a Viet Cong victory in Viet Nam (TIME, Oct. 22). Dumont called on Hughes to have Genovese fired; the Governor refused, arguing that a question involving academic freedom should be settled by Rutgers...
Died. Hans Knappertsbusch, 77, German conductor in the grand tradition of the late 19th century romantics, who through the 1920s and '30s took brilliant charge of, first, the Munich Bavarian State Opera, then the Vienna State Opera and Vienna Philharmonic until the Nazis forced him into virtual retirement from 1938 to '45, after which he came back to crown his career at the 1951 Bayreuth Festival with a daringly modernized performance of Parsifal that sparked a Wagnerian revival throughout Europe; of a heart attack; in Munich...
...international conspiracy apparently had nothing to do with last week's revolt. Instead, it was caused by the same thing that killed the other Premiers-the tribal rivalry between the towering Watutsis and the shorter but far more numerous Bahutus, who for centuries have served the Watutsis as virtual slaves. Fed up, the Bahutus now demand a republic-like the one their fellow tribesmen achieved in neighboring Rwanda after overthrowing a Watutsi king in 1959. But Burundi's Watutsis are as determined as ever to continue in the ascendancy they now enjoy. Not surprisingly, the Mwami...
...increase its investment at the rate of $20 million a year. The Belgian company still suffers from some political tribulation. In former rebel territory, where ten of its employees were murdered, production of cotton and palm oil has been severely curtailed, and on some plantations has come to a virtual standstill. Half of the production of its diamond mines is stolen. But la Générale is less worried by these facts than by another fear: that the Congo's present inflation may speed up and cause widespread damage to the economy...