Word: 99th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Here comes the star of the show," chortled Cassius Marcellus Clay, 21, and for once he didn't mean himself. With Brother Rudolph Valentino Clay, 20, he was escorting his paternal great-grandmother, Mrs. Betsy Greathouse ("The roots of a great champion," says Cassius), to her 99th birthday party. "It's a shame," he added, turning serious for a change. "I get all this attention for nothing, and she's never had her name in the paper...
...99th on a list of projects that McNamara got drawn up shortly after he took over as Secretary...
Jointly the U.S. sponsored a resolution with Britain. France and Turkey ordering an immediate ceasefire. The motion was defeated by Russia's 99th Security Council veto. Actually, neither Adlai Stevenson nor the rest of the world should have been shocked at India's resort to force. To a large extent, Indian nonviolence is a wistful fiction of Western liberals. Since 1947, India has been consistently embroiled in territorial disputes within its own borders. It fought a bloody war over Kashmir with Pakistan that was tacitly approved by Mahatma Gandhi, took "police action'' against Hyderabad when...