Word: battlegrounds
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...Southern Battleground...
...have tolerated your slanted treatment of the South and Southerners because I enjoyed reading other sections of TIME; but your picture of the "Montgomery Battleground" is too much to take. My friends do not wear "wool hats" or carry sticks of dynamite, nor have they ever condoned any violence against the colored people or ever attended any mass meetings to organize against Negroes or belong to the Ku Klux Klan. That there are Christians among the ignorant whites may be almost unbelievable to your intelligent readers in the North. My friends do have one thing in common: they have...
...with Philadelphia's Jerrold Electronics Corp., which pioneered in wiring community antenna systems for towns too remote for ordinary TV signals. The company set out to persuade movie exhibitors that it would "give them a chance to get into the home and compete with TV on its own battleground." The idea appealed to Video Independent Theaters, a chain of 150 movie houses and 60 drive-ins in the Southwest...
...government guerrillas, the death toll, according to President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, tops 100,000-three times greater than battle deaths among U.S. forces in Korea-in a country with a population of only 13 million. Last week TIME correspondent Piero Saporiti toured the front lines of this almost-forgotten battleground. His report...
...outbid Nasser for leadership of the I Arab world. Early in October, Sir Anthony I Eden infuriated the Israelis by suggesting Va peace based on the 1947 partition plan, which would cost Israel all the territory it won later by beating the Arabs. Jordan was the battleground of Britain's contest with Nasser. Jordan had kicked out Britain's Glubb Pasha, but still needed its $33-million-a-year subsidy from Britain. At London's urging, Iraq (Britain's only ally in the Arab world) offered Jordan military aid. But Iraq's offer came down to two planeloads of small...