Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...national party. They confidently concluded that money would be no problem; enough businessmen could be found to bankroll the expansion. His adamant opposition to the worldwide nonproliferation treaty proposed by Washington and Moscow plays on the widespread German resentment of big-power Diktats. His rejection of a unilateral legal attack on the extreme right stems from his instinctive feeling that the German electorate is far more upset by the radicalism of the New Left. His opposition to the abolition of the statute of limitations echoes the feelings of many Germans that the sack-cloth-and-ashes period is over...
Died. Earl Eisenhower, 70, younger brother of former President Dwight Eisenhower, who once served a term in the Illinois State Legislature; of a heart attack; in Scottsdale, Ariz. A staid businessman for 35 years, Earl plunged into politics in 1964, was top Republican vote getter in an unprecedented at-large election for the Illinois House of Representatives. Two years later he ran for clerk of heavily Democratic Cook County. He lost by a substantial margin and retired to Arizona...
Died. Colonel Segismundo Casado, 75, Spanish Loyalist officer who in the closing days of the Civil War seized Madrid and surrendered the city to Franco in hopes of ending the bloodshed; of a heart attack; in Madrid. One of the few professional officers to march under the Loyalist banner, Casado was nevertheless distrustful of the Communists in Loyalist forces; in 1939, when the Reds vowed to defend Madrid to the death, he turned on his former allies and imprisoned their leaders, thus effectively ending the battle...
...plot, in fact, is minimal. A pleasant place called Pepperland is invaded by a tribe of amorphous music-hating monsters called the Blue Meanies, who launch a devastating attack with "splotch guns," which drain their victims of color, and a ferocious Flying Glove, with jet propulsion and a sinister intelligence of its own. The Meanies' ranks fight the Apple Bonkers (who drop big green apples on people's heads) and the Snapping Turtle Turks with sharks' mouths for stomachs...
...expanded the curriculum to include courses on black culture and his tory, next fall plans to launch a new : School of Urban Sciences to attack the problem of ghettos. Says Cheek: "It is our contention that the urban cri sis, except for air pollution and transportation, is basically a problem of black people." Cheek thinks that it is therefore up to black people to find solutions. Rather than overloading his faculty with Ph.D.s, he would prefer to hire "somebody like Claude Brown," the angry author of Manchild in the Promised Land. He would like to set up a program under...