Word: briefings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Government has until next week to file its brief against a new trial. Meantime, FBI agents have been scurrying around Chattanooga questioning everyone named in the affidavits. The Justice Department plans to ask a Tennessee federal grand jury now in session to investigate charges of "massive perjury" in connection with Hoffa's latest -and gamiest-bid to stay out of jail...
...Tougher Troops. There had been earlier in the week: on the 19th, 20th and 21st of September, Chinese patrols moved across the border against Indian positions, firing white parachute flares from their mortars and covering their approach with bursts of small-arms fire. Before dawn on the 21st, a brief fire fight took place, and about 1,000 rounds were exchanged. The Indians suffered no casualties, but the Chinese were seen dragging at least two of their men from the foggy no-man's-land below the ridge. The results reflected the change that has come over Indian morale...
...lifelong vision of graceful suspension bridges linking major U.S. arteries, designed and built New York's George Washington, Triborough and new Verrazano-Narrows bridges and played a major role in the construction of San Francisco's Golden Gate and Delaware's Memorial bridges; after a brief illness...
...western steamboats ("half boat, half alligator") killed more than 1,400 people. The railroads, hastily and flimsily built, also had an appalling accident rate. No one seemed to mind that railroad travelers were jammed together in long boxlike cars without distinction of social class and that stopovers were brief. In time the quick lunch-counter meal became an American institution; gregariousness and "instant community" were taken for granted. "Get-up-and-go" was early established as an ideal for the American character...
Someone also imported Titos Vandis, a fine Greek actor, to do a song and dance routine. Although his brief appearance might be enjoyable, this is not the Ed Sullivan show. Equally gratuitous are several characters used during the historical flashback scenes which, as a result, become overly involved and confusing. Hopefully some of the latter will be cut before Broadway, but then Mr. Lerner has a strange penchant for the period...