Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said. "A history, a common commitment to freedom and a common hope for freedom, and in this great cause Canada and the U.S. stand side by side." Then the two men were off to begin their conversations. As he stood on Kennedy's front lawn in a blustery Cape Cod wind, Pearson was asked by shivering reporters what he thought about the weather. "It's far worse here than where I come from," he grinned. Retorted Kennedy: "It takes years of diplomacy to be able to say that." Diplomatic as ever, Pearson continued: "When we've finished...
...annual $1,810 standard premium with a $375 surcharge for extra hazard), but still less than steeplejacks. Since the standard premium varies with age, Senior Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., 41, gets the highest bill. The lowest? To Major L. Gordon Cooper, 36, pounding along the beach at Cape Canaveral as a warm-up for his scheduled 22-orbit mission this week, which could be the biggest TV spectacular in many a moon (see SCIENCE...
...Congress, was sentenced to three years in jail for "incitement to riot." As his release date drew near last week, Sobukwe, a slim onetime university lecturer, was hustled from the maximum-security prison in Pretoria to a bleak detention camp on Robben Island in Table Bay, six miles from Cape Town. There he learned, just the day before he was to receive freedom, that South Africa's Parliament had rammed through a new security act empowering Justice Minister Johannes Vorster to keep political prisoners in custody indefinitely, even after their sentences have expired. Shrugged Sobukwe: "If you believe...
...Poqo and Spear of the Nation. Poqo (pronounced Paw-kaw and meaning "for ourselves alone" in the Xhosa tongue) patterns itself after the dreaded Mau Mau, which terrorized Kenya in the 1950s. It first rose to prominence last November, when some of its members rioted in the wine-growing Cape community of Paarl, hacking two whites to death with pangas. Later, opposing the total apartheid scheme to move most of South Africa's 11 million blacks into nine tribal reserves, Poqo butchered five whites in the Transkei...
Army smiles last week were brighter than brass. From Cape Canaveral came a report on the second successful field firing of the Army's newest nuclear weapon, the 34-ft., 5-ton Pershing. Launched from a mobile carrier, the solid-fueled Pershing swept 200 miles down the Atlantic, splashed just 125 ft. beyond and 165 ft. to the left of its target's dead center. Now in production, the Pershing, with a top range of 400 miles, will go into the field in Western Europe some time next year. Pershing's success adds a heavy wallop...