Word: controled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...save the city's core. Water mains burst and sewers backed up, spurting like geysers, as exhausted workers clung to the defense perimeter. Armed guards battled diamondback rattlesnakes as plentiful as worms after rain. Bushes turned black with water-shy tarantulas, and the mosquito population exploded beyond control...
...told that army troops were needed to throw Red Guards out of some buildings. The Red Guards have set up loudspeakers in some of the buildings they control, and so have rival Maoist groups. They indulge in loud verbal battles, with hysterically screaming girls pouring out torrents of abuse at each other and at "U.S. imperialist aggressors." As we inched through the masses at one point, a beautiful Chinese travel-service girl told me with a delightful smile: "Chairman Mao has taught us that we must crush the American aggressors. We must kill, crush, destroy all imperialist monsters." I asked...
...help of assorted sympathetic mediums. The most recent-and most dramatic-encounter took place last month in Toronto, where Pike participated in a televised séance with the Rev. Arthur A. Ford of Philadelphia, a Disciples of Christ minister and a professional medium who claims that a "spirit control" named "Fletcher" speaks through his vocal cords...
...Rotte" (Cellar of Broken Heads).&* Two of three presiding officers at the meetings-William Cardinal Conway of Ireland and Pericle Cardinal Felici, the secretary-general of Vatican II-are generally regarded as conservatives. The agenda ignores the two most bothersome issues facing the church today-priestly celibacy and birth control. Instead, the bishops are expected to focus on a quintet of less pressing questions: canon-law reform, updating doctrine, seminary renewal, mixed marriages and liturgy...
...pleads, a fund must be set up to uncover and restore the island's largely uninvestigated monuments. "Fully restored," says Tour Director Lars-Eric Lindblad, "Easter Island will equal anything in Egypt." Says Anthropologist Dr. William Mulloy, an associate of Father Sebastian's: "If some sort of control is not exercised, within a decade the island will be lost...