Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...yellow-and-green-barred emblem of the free and independent republic of Togo as a French man-of-war in the harbor boomed a 101-gun salute and 20,000 Togolese, shouting "ablodé, ablodé" (freedom), snake-danced through the palm-lined streets behind a blaring brass band and native drummers. Thus last week was born the second of seven new African nations, due to join the world family of nations this year...
...Caracas' Miraflores Palace one day last week, the classic challenge of a military usurper faced the moderately leftist government of President Romulo Betancourt. An hour earlier General Jesus Maria Castro Leon, 51, former Defense Minister and a tinkling symbol of Venezuela's top brass, had crossed the Colombian frontier. Proceeding to San Cristobal (pop. 90,000), 385 miles southwest of Caracas, he took over its 500-man garrison from a disloyal colonel and by radio urged other generals to help him "restore the prestige of the armed forces...
...months of Betancourt's constitutional regime have been the longest period in Venezuela's turbulent 150 years in which the armed forces have been out of power. How would the brass now answer Castro Leon's call to renewed power...
...Edison Township. N.J., Elmira, N.Y.. Atlanta. When the Pennsylvania Railroad decided to build its Penn Center in downtown Philadelphia, it called on Dowling for the planning. He urged the road to sacrifice some office rental space in favor of setback buildings with fountains, air and light, convinced Pennsy brass that what was lost in footage would be made up in higher rent. When Pittsburgh was having trouble deciding how to go about redeveloping its gritty downtown area. Dowling, then adviser to Equitable Life Assurance, came to the rescue. At a meeting in his office, he advised Pittsburgh planners...
...political weather for him. Six months ago a big Johnson-for-President headquarters had been established in a twelve-room suite in Austin by Speaker Sam Rayburn; its 14 employees and volunteer workers (including Elliott Roosevelt Jr., 23) were busy handing out campaign literature and Johnson lapel buttons (a brass cowboy hat embossed with L.B.J...