Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first in Geneva and then in Warsaw. While the talks produced mostly propaganda, they did provide a useful channel for confidential contacts. Occasionally, the U.S. ambassador delivered an unpublicized message; in 1962, for example, Washington used the talks to assure Peking that the U.S. would not support a Nationalist attack from Taiwan against the mainland...
...Elliot Richardson put it recently. The U.S. fully realizes that it cannot effect any lasting solutions in Viet Nam and Southeast Asia without at least some cooperation from China. Also, Washington worries that a lack of contact between China and the U.S. might embolden the Russians to blackmail or attack China. In view of Moscow's superior military strength, an American show of neutrality would only benefit the Russians; yet because of the communications void between Peking and Washington, the U.S. would have no other choice, short of retaliating directly against the Soviets. Washington would like to make...
Died. General Arthur da Costa e Silva, 67, former President of Brazil, who in December 1968 ended all pretense of civilian government; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro. A leader of the then-popular military coup that deposed Leftist João Goulart in 1964, Costa e Silva was elected President with army backing in 1966 and embarked on a program of tight political and economic control. Economic austerity worked wonders, but one politically repressive move followed another until Costa e Silva dissolved Congress and instituted rule by decree. Last August he suffered a paralytic stroke...
Died. Joseph P. Spang Jr., 76, former head of the Gillette Co., who was among the first to recognize the advertising potential of sports events; of a heart attack; in Boston. "Look Sharp, Feel Sharp, Be Sharp" went the familiar razor-blade slogan, and few were sharper than Spang, who in 1939 sponsored World Series broadcasts, followed with the Kentucky Derby, football, boxing and the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports radio and TV shows-all of which helped Gillette become pre-eminent in the field, with earnings of $96 million by the time Spang retired...
Died. Frank ("Lefty") O'Doul, 72, baseball great of the 1920s and '30s; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. O'Doul wasted eight seasons until 1924 as a mediocre pitcher before realizing that his future was elsewhere on the diamond. As an outfielder with the Philadelphia Phillies and Brooklyn Dodgers, he won two National League batting crowns, and generally tore up the league until he retired in 1934 with a .349 lifetime batting average...