Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there? First off, if you are fortunate enough to have a car, be wise enough to leave it in the garage. Save it for your week-end trip to Tanglewood or Cape Cod. Boston is no place to drive in. Scooters are fine, and walking is even better; but for most, the public transit system will do best. It's called the MTA, and 20 cents will get you almost anywhere. Park Street Station in downtown Boston is the hub of this underground network. But, remember: the subways and buses stop...
...National Aeronautics and Space Administration on its Mercury man-in-space program. All foreign embassies got invitations and many sent representatives, including the Russians and Hungarians. Everyone got a 116-page illustrated book on the medical aspects of Commander Alan Shepard's memorable 15-minute flight from Cape Canaveral...
South Africa's non-whites could only hope that influence from abroad might some day force Verwoerd to moderate his apartheid rules. Leaving the British Commonwealth already had sorely wounded the economy; outside investment had virtually ceased, and foreign currency reserves were dangerously low. As Cape Town's pro-government Die Burger had frankly put it. South Africa now was "the polecat of the world...
...earnest, persuasive type, Actor Lancaster is assigned to prosecute the murder of a Puerto Rican member of the Horseman Gang by three hoods from the Italian Thunderbirds, one of whom makes animal noises, wears a cape and calls himself Batman. But the prosecutor's personal life keeps getting in the way. He seeks the death penalty, but his wife, a Vassar liberal, played with the animation of a damp Post Toasty by Cereal Heiress Dina Merrill, is dead against capital punishment. Yet the D.A. (Edward Andrews) wants to rev the Thunderbirds right into the chair so that...
...without bail or trial. Police squads were already rounding up all the suspicious-looking natives they could find, soon had more than 5,000 in their net. At Fordsburg, near Johannesburg, 700 arrested Africans were corralled in outdoor cages. To back up the cops, groups of white vigilantes in Cape Town began making forays into colored neighborhoods, hurled stones and gasoline bombs in an effort to intimidate colored families. White clerks and industrial workers were joining pistol-shooting classes in the Johannesburg area...