Word: armorer
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...Obviously Serkin likes this noble battle plan for piano and orchestra. Previously, he recorded it with Fritz Reiner, George Szell, and with Eugene Ormandy. Now he's back again with Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra. Few other scores so perfectly show off Serkin's heroic style, his armor-plated technique, and his by now infallible sense of just when to charge Brahms' craggy, imperial peaks...
...chief of the Czechoslovak party. Czechoslovaks joyously seized on his return to Prague as evidence that they had somehow prevailed in their improbable contest of national determination against Soviet force. That belief was buttressed by the fact that during the hours before Dubček's arrival, Soviet armor withdrew from the central part of Czechoslovak cities...
...first heavy fighting erupted along the Cambodian border to the west of Saigon, where the equivalent of a Viet Cong division moved on the provincial capital of Tay Ninh. Hints of a major buildup there had been drifting in for about a month. Confirmation came when a South Vietnamese armor specialist showed up at a Chieu Hoi center for defectors. He reported that the Communists had tried to recruit him to drive one of the armored personnel carriers that they expected to capture in an attack on the town...
...Poverty's first three years, said the report, "1,700,000 whites and more than 700,000 nonwhites a year crossed the threshold compared with an average of 840,000 whites and 80,000 nonwhites each year in 1959-64." The statistics, while impressive, may prove porous armor for OEO against its opponents once Congress reconvenes...
...Chinese crossed the Yalu. Lately, in response to North Korea's new aggressiveness, it has increased its defenses along the DMZ to counter infiltration moves, has examined every possible North Korean strategy and has kept a close intelligence watch on the movements of North Korean troops and armor. So far, North Korea has confined itself to nasty words and restricted infiltration and sniping. There is, however, increasing concern that Kim II Sung may be planning something more substantial that could effectively write finis to the long and troubled truce...