Word: c
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon to retire for ill health, and Robert Smith, a Marine Corps hero and former FBI agent-made an earnest and honest effort to build their case at what can be assumed to be great social cost to themselves. They got no help from Tallahatchie's Sheriff H. C. Strider, a cotton planter (1,500 acres), who insisted that Till had been whisked away alive. "This whole thing was rigged," he said...
Happy Birthday." The strongman fell with dramatic suddenness. As the fateful week opened, the government propaganda machine was still repetitiously insisting that the rebellion was about to collapse, that loyalist troops had retaken the rebel stronghold of Córdoba. But Peron's government, not the rebellion, was about to collapse...
...than the June 16 rebellion, snuffed out in six hours by inner-circle generals guarding their vested interests in the Perón regime. But this time rebel leaders showed spectacular dime-novel pluck and luck. While Generals Lonardi and Videla Balaguer were holding Córdoba, Vice Admiral Isaac Rojas daringly boarded the navy's flagship cruiser, locked the Peronista fleet commander in his cabin, invited the navy to join the rebellion. "I am not going to deceive anybody," messaged Rojas. "We are going to make a revolution, and they may kill us all. Anybody who does...
Lightning crashed from the dark skies over London and thunder reverberated in its byways one evening last week, as C-day came to Britain. "Zero hour is on us," intoned a voice over the nation's TV sets...
These sharp questions were asked last week by Kenneth C. Royall, chairman of the New York State Committee on Education and onetime Secretary of the Army (1947-49). What Royall said next was a severe jolt to the 800 citizens gathered in Manhattan for the state conference, a prelude to the White House Conference on Education which begins in Washington Nov. 28 (TIME, Sept. 12). The stock solution for the schools' problems is to make them bigger and better. Royall's advice: contract the educational system...