Word: camping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tolerable concert, but the songs weren't much better than the dialogue. They change from folk to rock as the hero gets corrupted (yes, Marshall, the media is the message). Leading man Roger Brown had a pleasant voice, and would have been a marvelous leader for a summer camp sing-a-long. The rock music, and the rock group, The Brown Paper Bag were monotonous, and imitative (more plagiaristically than facetiously) of groups like the Jefferson Airplane...
Agnew said he did not expect to be nominated as a favorite son, indicating that his delegation would break before the convention opens on Monday. The Rockefeller camp believes Rhodes will hold out for a couple of ballots. Romney, once Rockefeller's ally, said none of the three prospects appealed to him. As for his convention role, the Michigander said that he expected "to be in the midst of the conflict with words that are true and action that is right, even if not understood at the time...
...developments constitute a threat to socialism and the Warsaw Pact; 2) that the Czechoslovak Communist Party is losing or giving up its leading role; 3) that the party is overrun with "revisionists"; 4) that Czechoslovak journalists are against the party, the Warsaw Pact and the unity of the Communist camp; and 5) that if Dubček does not act himself, he can expect "international help"-meaning from Red army troops. Dubček hardly seemed prepared to acknowledge any of this, but he did throw a pacifier Moscow's way. His party Presidium, replying to a harsh Soviet...
Thousands of refugees from the war zone have filled Biafra's towns to overflowing; other thousands are packed into refugee camps that have neither enough food nor enough medicine. At Umuaka Camp near Port Harcourt, where 100 refugees have to share a 15-by-15-foot room, the daily ration consists of two cups of cassava, a starchy, sawdust-like root. When Wilde visited there, a child had just died-it was a year and a half old and weighed no more than eight pounds. Its mother was too weak to brush the flies off the body. "This...
Like nearly all Soviet intellectuals, Sakharov bitterly attacks the trial of Writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, which he says "has been condemned by the progressive public in the Soviet Union and abroad and has compromised the Communist system. These two writers languish in a camp with a strict regime and are being subjected (especially Daniel) to harsh humiliations and ordeals...