Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fear of genocide and want to train their youth for combat. Some have been involved in campus brawls and dustups at political rallies. Last week they ran a $2,790 newspaper ad in New York showing six young men standing before a building with clubs in hand. In an age of Black Panthers, white vigilantes, and apparently millions of armed and angry individuals, there would already seem to be a surfeit of quasi-military partisans. Threat, however, tends to breed counterthreat. Out of the people traditionally identified with the word ghetto has come an unusual group called the Jewish Defense...
Little in Lagos mirrors the war be cause Nigeria so far has fought only a limited action. Open-air markets operate as usual, and military-age students hur ry blithely to classes. Foreign vessels crowd the port of Lagos. Palm oil, pea nut and cocoa exports are thriving and the economy is strong. Within earshot of Biafran guns, oil wells are pumping so robustly that Nigerian production this year will reach a record 255 mil lion barrels. Asked why they were pro testing the higher taxes needed for the army, participants in recent tax riots in outlying districts were stunned...
...whose blood alcohol concentration never goes over the .10% or .15% threshold accepted by most states; 2) the skillful driver who usually imbibes moderately, but on occasion overindulges to the point where his skill is impaired; 3) the man whose skill behind the wheel has deteriorated because of age or illness and who may consequently feel the effects of alcohol more acutely; 4) the inexperienced driver, whose lack of skill may be magnified by even minute amounts of alcohol; 5) the normal driver who is unusually sensitive to alcohol; 6) the motorist who is prone to "aggressive, sociopathic driving...
Rowan and Martin have made Laugh-In one of the phenomena of the McLuhan age. How could they miss in the movies? By making The Maltese Bippy, a yawn-in of the team's celebrated videocies and running gags. Though Rowan and Martin are shoehorned into a plot, the fit is loose enough to let the boys play themselves. Rowan is still the smart one, and Martin is correctly addressed as a dingaling, a dumdum and a dodo...
Died. Willy Ley, 62, German-born author, lecturer and prophet of space travel; of a heart attack; in New York. As early as 1926, Ley was experimenting with rockets and writing about trips to the moon (Trip into Space). When his former countrymen led the way into the space age by firing the first V-2 rockets into London in 1944 he became, almost overnight, one of the most sought-after authorities on rocketry, called upon to advise the Government and writing book after book (Satellites, Rockets and Outer Space, Rockets, Missiles and Men in Space). His death came...