Word: american
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less attractive customs of the West come to the Communist world for the first time since 1956, when a Hungarian airliner was seized and diverted to West Germany. In another episode, a gun-waving 17-year-old from Detroit forced the crew of a Mexico City to Miami Pan American jetliner to fly to Havana. The two hijackings brought to 56 the total reported this year (47 to Havana alone). They also proved once again that no airliner anywhere is immune...
...Vietnamese belief, their souls are condemned to wander the earth as a result. In the creek, the search team found what it had been looking for-some 250 skulls and piles of bones. "The eyeholes were deep and black, and the water flowed over the ribs," said an American who was at the scene...
...came to a halt and scores flocked out to Phu Thu to look for long-missing relatives, sifting through the remains of clothes, shoes and personal effects. They seemed to be hoping they would find someone and at the same time hoping they wouldn't,' said an American official." Eventually, about 24 sites were unearthed and the remains of 809 bodies were found...
...presidential candidate defines his position as "neither to the right, nor to the left, nor in a static center, but onward and upward." Just how quickly Echeverria will move, however, remains in question. Stable leadership has given Mexico four decades of political and economic progress, while South American nations have suffered 40 coups since 1930. Recently, however, the party has displayed an increasing reluctance to stay in step with the times...
...power at the plate won him six American League batting titles, while his unruly temper earned him the sobriquet "Terrible Ted." Returning to baseball this season as manager of the Washington Senators, Ted Williams set out to prove that "doing very little for eight years except fishing" had dulled none of his baseball dazzle. He was right. The Senators posted their first winning season in 17 years to finish fourth in division standings. For that, the Associated Press voted him American League Manager of the Year. Told the news by telephone, Williams was nonplussed. "I'm flabbergasted," he said...