Word: columne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CORE is growing, with more than 75,000 white and Negro members already, and Farmer is pushing the battle for recruits into gin joints, pool halls and candy stores. He further solicits support for his cause in a weekly newspaper column, and in a new book, to be serialized by Playboy magazine called Freedom When. Farmer's answer is "not very soon." That's one reason why in the Negro's long struggle for freedom, CORE is lucky to have a man in command who doesn't tire of the battle...
...hero of the book is named Alec Barr. Like the author, he was born poor in North Carolina, went to college at Chapel Hill, hired on as a general reporter for the Washington Daily News, soon started a syndicated column, and in recent years made big money and a big name with a brace of bestsellers about Africa in transformation. The story of the hero's public life is superficial but exciting; the details of his private life are clinical and, with the hero-author parallel continually implied, embarrassing. As for the women in his life, Ruark compares them...
...scalp of William Fulbright. Senator Dodd has attacked him. Senator Long has attacked him. Senator Lausche has attacked him. Senator Russell has attacked him. The House has voted a resolution which indirectly censures his critique of military intervention in the Dominican Republic. And, according to Joseph Kraft's column in Monday's Globe, a piqued Administration is doing nothing to shield the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee from right-wing flak: "On the contrary, the Administration is itself holding the anti-communist issue in reverse as a rod to dissident members of its majority...
...that would cut across the Indian rear. The assault was mounted by the 1st Armored Division, reputed to be the best in the Pakistan army. The Indian strategy resembled that of Hannibal when he caught the Romans in a baglike trap and decimated them at Cannae. The Pakistani armored column burst through the first Indian line and plunged on only to find itself entrapped inside a horseshoe-shaped line of well-fortified Indian positions. Recoilless rifles, mounted on jeeps or dug into ground emplacements, poured a heavy fire into the massed Pakistani tanks. Support fire rained down from Indian...
...President Abdul Salam Aref's departure for the Arab League conference at Casablanca. With the President out of the country, Razzak decided to make Aref's absence permanent. Backed by his newly chosen Cabinet, which was as strongly pro-Nasser as himself, Razzak ordered a tank column from the Abi Gharib camp, outside Baghdad, to occupy Iraq's radio station and broadcast "communique No. 1," announcing the formation of a new government pledged to instant union with Nasser's Egypt...