Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Saturday night 5000 Bostonians came to a "Sane Rally for Peace" in the Boston Arena, more often the scene of pugilistic combat. On the platform were a governor and a couple of folksingers, a theologian, a chemist, and a psychoanalyst...
...time for unity." The U.S., which had long felt that Vientiane had not been awake to the danger in the north and thinks that Prince Boun has the right idea about the Pathet Lao, moved a task force into nearby waters with 1,100 marines and a squadron of combat helicopters aboard as a warning to Peking to keep hands off Laos's governments-either...
...wharfs, fishing shacks and the sounding sea-the sort of vista once sketched avidly by artists and now appreciated chiefly by retired couples who tour Cape Cod in late September. The artist is a burly fellow (Ezra Reuben Baker), recognizably aesthetic in paint-smeared dungarees, scurrilous red sweater and combat boots. He trundles a cart filled with paint buckets along a dock, then throws an enormous sheet of wallboard down on a mud flat ten feet below...
...combat sagging auto sales, Stude-baker-Packard has given a new look to its 1961 line. The 1961 Lark will have a lower hood line, and the horsepower of its standard six-cylinder engine will be hiked from 90 to 112 (lack of power in the sixes was a major owner complaint). The company has also added the Lark Cruiser to the line. Designed to compete with the new luxury compacts, it has a iSo-h.p. V-8 engine, is 4 in. longer than the standard Lark, has a plush interior and dual headlights...
Landing at Stanleyville in his Ilyushin-14 only minutes after the attack on the Globemaster's crew. Patrice Lumumba ignored the patches of blood on the runway, shouted to thousands of cheering ill-clad supporters: "I am very happy to see you in combat uniform ready to descend on Katanga." Back in Leopoldville. the U.N.'s Ralph Bunche fired off an angry protest to the Congolese government. Assuring Bunche of his "deep and .sincere personal regrets," the Congo's able young Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko concluded his reply: "But what can I do?" It was a fair...