Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Traditionally, the Holy Thursday procession of Buenos Aires' Roman Catholics marches 13 blocks, from Congress Square to the spacious Plaza de Mayo, but this year the police gave grudging permission to proceed only as far as the Church of Our Lady of Monserrat, five blocks from the Plaza. Abreast...
Battle on the Boulevard. The mortar shells and the ultimatum were fired at the struggling new state of South Viet Nam (pop. 10.5 million) by a war lord named General Le Van Vien-a man who used to be a river pirate and now runs the Binh Xuyen (pronounced bin...
Like many another Latin American strongman, Perón has found his university students distressingly prejudiced in favor of liberty. Despite the thoroughgoing Peronization of university faculties, most of the students remain notably unenthusiastic about Perón, which makes his watchful cops highly suspicious of them. Last October the...
Captive Audience. In Pasco, Wash., arrested in a liquor raid on a nightclub, Adell Scott, 25, was acquitted of a vagrancy charge when he explained that he had been pushed into the club by cops rushing through the door to stage the raid.
A Mob of Hoodlums. Riot was just a breath away when someone touched off a tear-gas bomb. Blinded, and choking on the thick smoke, spectators groped their way out of the Forum. Outside, the mob grew. Some 8,000 strong, it flowed down St. Catherine Street, blocked traffic and...