Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would damage the Administration's case. The committee's threat to publish the entire transcript prompted the Pentagon to release all but 250 censored words at week's end. Many questions about the incidents of August 1964 still remained unanswered, and many more were raised (see box...
Maddox, a 2,200-ton destroyer, left Yokosuka, Japan, July 23 on what seemed to be a routine mission to observe North Vietnamese naval activity in the Gulf of Tonkin. Stopping at Taiwan, she took aboard a "black box," about the size of a moving van, crammed with electronic gear, and about a dozen new men to tend its innards. What was it for? Defense Secretary Robert McNamara insisted at first that the equipment "consisted in essence" of normal radio receivers that gave the ship "added capacity" to detect indications of possible attack. In testimony released at week...
...clutter because, as Nesbitt points out, "Claes likes to have a lot of things around so he can stumble over them. There is the same sense of unexpected confrontation here that there is in his work." Louise Nevelson's mammoth constructions emerge from a darkly mysterious, board-and box-crammed warren that, as Nesbitt observes reverently, "is an environmental experience in itself...
...shame that Charlie Hodge could not have been sitting in a front-row box at the Oakland Coliseum one night last week-instead of crouching in the nets, tending goal for the National Hockey League's Oakland Seals. Then he might have had a good look at the shot that beat him. For 57 frantic minutes, while a record crowd of 12,025 howled itself hoarse, the improbable Seals-an expansion team that played its first game only last October-battled the fearsome Chicago Black Hawks to a 0-0 standoff. Outmanned, outskated, outshot, the Seals somehow hung...
...reason "The Steps of the Pentagon" is Mailer's best work, as Harper's boasts on the cover, is one magnificent ten-page passage about Thursday Night at the Ambassador Theatre. Time Magazine described the scene in a red-bordered box last October, telling how Mailer slurped bourbon from a coffee mug and yelled obscenities at the audience, as Mitchell Goodman, Robert Lowell, and Dwight MacDonald--the other speakers--sniggered at him patronizingly in the wings...