Word: boxers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...returning spacecraft. To protect the capsule, a new cone-shaped heat shield completely enveloped Apollo instead of guarding only the blunt end. It came through as expected, seared but intact. And three huge parachutes gently dropped Apollo into the Atlantic about 40 miles from its target ship, the U.S.S. Boxer...
Died. Robert Rossen, 57, Hollywood producerdirector, a onetime boxer from Manhattan's Lower East Side who, after some years as a Warner Bros, scriptwriter, turned to making his own movies "about things I knew as a kid," such as Body and Soul, 1949's Oscar-winning All the King's Men and The Hustler; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...supporters and swingers. Among the Lindsay helpers were Actor Henry Fonda, Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jose Torres (a Puerto Rican), Singers Sammy Davis Jr., Liza Minnelli and Ethel Merman, Authors Norman Mailer and Paddy Chayefsky, Broadway Producers George Abbott and Hal Prince, ex-Baseball Star Jackie Robinson and Boxer Suear Ray Robin son, Comedienne Phyllis Diller and CORE Leader James Farmer...
...502ND. The "First Cav" is the U.S. 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) Division, and it calls itself the "First Team"-the proud boast of a unit lineage that extends back through Korea and the Philippines to General Custer. Last week, by helilift direct from the U.S.S. Boxer and by road convoy from Qui Nhon, the First Team arrived in full force along Route...
...thousands. The purpose of all this gore is to prove that the suffering and horror wrought upon China by the West forced the Chinese to go Communist in self-defense. Author Suyin lets her morbid imagination gallop away when she writes of such events as the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 by Japan and the Western powers: "Soldiers of France and England and Germany went about with open trousers to rape women, and spears to impale the babies. Militant missionaries boasted of the peasants they shot after baptising them. One of them, an American, wrote: 'I sent...