Word: broken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this nation's purpose." There seemed to be something of a shortage of faith. Louis Harris took a survey after the assassination and reported that two out of three Americans believed there was something deeply wrong with their country; 53% agreed with the statement that "law enforcement has broken down and lawlessness has taken over...
...siege is Colonel Tran Dinh Xu, the Communist commander for the capital district. At night, his rocketeers slip to within range of the city, often using, for the sake of speed, crude earthworks and bamboo racks rather than unwieldy launcher tubes to aim their whispering death on Saigon. Easily broken down into sections-a 2-lb. fuse, a 41-lb. warhead and a 59-lb. motor section-the rockets can be carried by porters, are quickly assembled and fired by a crew of only three men. The missiles are not notably precise-at a maximum range of about seven miles...
...initially designated "John Doe"? The police had few clues: height, 5 ft. 3 in.; weight, 120 Ibs.; eyes, brown; hair, thick, black; accent, foreign, but not readily classifiable. He had a broken index finger and a sprained ankle as a result of the struggle in the pantry, but his basic condition was good. His fingerprints disclosed no criminal record in any law-enforcement agency. Reddin thought he might be a Cuban or a West Indian. He car ried no identifying papers, but had four $100 bills, a $5 bill, four singles and some change; a car key; a recent David...
...Soviet Union has always subcribed, in theory, to the concept of rule by committee--Presidiums, Politburos, etc. In the past the theory has broken down and power in the USSR has always seemed to devolve to one man--possibly this happened because the needs of material development were the most pressing ones at the time. Today, however, the Soviet Union is governed in a partnership, an uneasy but still functioning one, between the Party (in Brezhnev) and the government (in Premier Kosygin). This fusion of the legislature (the Communist Party plays the role of a legislature in the Soviet Union...
...Unser's older brother Jerry was killed during a practice run at Indy in 1959; his younger brother Al narrowly escaped injury when he lost two wheels and slammed into the wall on the 41st lap of last week's race. Worried about Al, plagued by a broken transmission that forced him to stay in high gear and therefore cost him seconds accelerating away from each pit stop, Bobby nonetheless drove the race of his life. "I was out there to root hog or die," he said afterward. "I took chances I'd never take ordinarily." When...