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Word: central (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist chieftains. Even during a three-year eclipse from public view before last month when he was named minister without portfolio to head Hanoi's negotiating team, Thuy retained a resonant string of official titles, notably as a member of the Lao Dong (Communist) Party Central Committee and head of its foreign relations section...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: XUAN THUY: Abrasive Advocate | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

This was a setup," Capote believes. The central factor of what happens is that, after the assassination, this assassin rushes out of the rooming house and what does he do? He does a very amazing, unusual thing. He takes a suitcase and very carefully props it up in front of a store. And in this suitcase there is a shotgun, very carefully left. And what is on it is Mr. James Earl Ray's fingerprints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opinion: The Assassination According to Capote | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...Penn Central, reporting for the first time since the Feb. 1 merger of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central, earned $13.4 million, or 16.6% more than last year's first quar ter, when the partners were competitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earnings: Full Quarter | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

SUNDAY, APRIL 28 -- Four hours of meetings about tactical matters, politics, and reports from Strike Central. I begin to long for a benevolent dictator. It is announced that we are spending as much money on cigarettes as food. I wonder as I look about me whether Lenin was as concerned with the breast size of his revolutionary cohorts as I am. It is now daylight savings time; under all the clocks are signs saying "it's later than you think...

Author: By Simon James, | Title: On the Steps of Low, Part II | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...line up to the people in Low without the jocks grabbing it. When one kid suggests tying an end to a broom handle and throwing it like a harpoon, John (Outside Agitator) suggests we train a bird. A helicopter has already been looked into by Strike Central, but the FAA won't allow it. Finally we agree on shooting in a leader line with a bow and arrow...

Author: By Simon James, | Title: On the Steps of Low, Part II | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

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