Word: caps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prayers to Allah. At the airport, Johnson was pale and apprehensive. But as Bashir materialized like a genie in the plane's door, he soon let his host know that there was nothing to dread. Wearing a jaunty karakul cap, a trimly tailored frock coat and a 500-watt smile, the camel driver accepted the onslaught of press and public with the nonchalance of a Mogul prince. Nervously, Johnson apologized for the chilly weather. Replied Bashir: "It is not the cold; it is the warmth of the people's hearts that matters." In response to L.B.J...
...biggest non-Government shelter projects, to be sunk beneath the ganglia of Radio City, with an eventual population capacity of 200,000. In Kansas City, the Brunson Instrument Co. recently moved its precision-instrument factory, underground, to a vibration-proof stone quarry. Contracts have been let for a big (cap. 600), elaborate fallout shelter underneath Minneapolis' Federal Reserve Bank, to be equipped with hi-fi music...
...steady Communist erosion of the West's position from Laos to the U.N. By sending 28 divisions on far-flung battle exercises through Eastern Europe this week, Khrushchev would impress many delegates, even if he did not succeed in intimidating the West. Soviet experts predicted that he would cap the Congress with a spectacular space feat or a vast nuclear explosion...
Warmed by a docile sun, pensive in cap and gown, Kennedy rose to speak before 40,000 students and townspeople in the University of North Carolina's football stadium at Chapel Hill. He was there to get an honorary doctor of laws degree; at his side was the university's President William C. Friday; Kennedy's speech-something about Berlin-lay before him. The President put it unobtrusively aside, and then for a quarter of an hour mulled aloud from a few notes on "how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal...
...treats the entire play as an animated cartoon strip. Actor-Playwright Davis stirs up intermittent fun with a flamboyantly well-paced performance and some sharp wisecracks, e.g., "You are a disgrace to the Negro profession." The plot hinges (and the hinge often creaks) on an attempt to trick Cap'n Cotchipee out of $500 so that Purlie can buy back Big Bethel Church and "preach freedom in the cotton patch...