Word: 83rd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Permissiveness? To Justice Hugo Black, who vigorously dissented (Justice John Marshall Harlan wrote a separate dissent), the decision opened up "a new revolutionary era of permissiveness." Black, who celebrated his 83rd birthday last week, claimed that the demonstration had diverted the pupils' minds from school work. The decision was untimely, said Black, because "groups of students all over the land are already running loose, conducting break-ins, sit-ins, lie-ins and smash...
...through light snow that dusted the 250-ft. Bridge of No Return from North to South Korea. In quilted blue coats, grey shirts, flannel trousers and white-soled black sneakers, the 82 surviving crew members filed over the bridge at ten-foot intervals. The body of the 83rd, Fireman Duane Hodges, mortally wounded during the hijacking by North Korean patrol boats, was brought to mid-bridge in a North Korean ambulance and his coffin transferred to a waiting U.S. truck...
Looking forward to his 83rd birth day next month - and backward on a 65-year career in merchandising - the chairman of the U.S.'s largest depart ment store group announced last week that he was relinquishing his title. Fred Lazarus Jr. turned full command over to Son Ralph, 53, and will keep only the honorary assignment of executive committee chairman of Federated Department Stores Inc. The man succeed ing Ralph as president of the Cincinnati-based organization is J. Paul Sticht, 49, a onetimeCampbell Soup Co. executive who joined Federated in 1960 and has been serving as a vice...
...stamp is clearly visible on the 83rd Detachment at Saigon's Tanson-hut airbase. Like their commander, the 83rd's pilots wear black flying suits with purple scarves. They call themselves Than Phong ("divine wind," the translation of the Japanese "kamikaze" of World War II). Boss of the 83rd is Hanoi-born Major Luu Kim Cuong, at 32 a 13-year veteran of Viet Nam's long war, and a confidant of Ky's. Cuong has logged more than 8,500 flying hours, taught himself to fly the Skyraider in a mere three days. He flew...
Wilde was more wry than right.* Niagara may rank 83rd on the list of the world's 100 highest cataracts, but only two (Guaira Falls on the Brazil-Paraguay border, and Khone Falls in Laos) cascade vaster quantities of water. Since the area's first hotel opened on the Canadian side of the Niagara River 148 years ago, the falls have proved one of the most visited, derided and durable attractions in North America. A record 16 million tourists are expected to visit Niagara Falls in 1965. And despite all the quips by wags from Mencken to Mort...