Word: al
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country has one of the world's highest traffic-accident rates. Last week, the tiny Persian Gulf sheikdom, whose fabled oil brings it some $750,000,000 in annual royalties, held the second parliamentary election in its history. Everyone knew that Kuwait was ruled by Sheik Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, 51, who became the Amir when his brother died a little over a year ago. Nevertheless, there was plenty of politicking for seats in the 50-member Parliament, which has little real power but confers upon those who sit in it great prestige and, it is widely suspected...
...road productions. But she and other cast members took time out-"Operation Big Daddy," she dubbed it-to put on an abridged version for the President and his guests, who included most leading Washington luminaries, as well as such show-biz notables as Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Crawford and Al Hirt...
Viet Cong terrorists enter Saigon al most at will and control scores of villages in the province of Gia Dinh, which completely surrounds the city. Enemy troops and equipment move freely into the Saigon area along infiltration trails from the Mekong Delta to the south and by motorized sampan along the Saigon River from the north. Eight Viet Cong battalions operate within a radius of 25 miles of the capital, extorting food, supplies and money from fright ened merchants and others among greater Saigon's 2,200,000 population...
Joan Baez thinks so. In fact, she's so sure Al Capp's cartoon character is a take-off on her that she has demanded an apology and the immediate execution of the comic strip abomination. "Either out of ignorance or malice," she wailed, "he has made being for peace equal to being for Communism, the Viet Cong and narcotics." Just as captiously, the cartoonist growled that Joanie wasn't Joan. "She should remember that protest singers don't own protest. When she protests about others' rights to protest, she is killing the whole racket...
...single most destructive Indian was sophomore wonder Al Petersen who smashed five records in the backstroke and the individual medley, including 1963 Yale star Bill Townsend's pool standard for the medley...