Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In Rock Creek Park, the police cavalry, worried lest its horses should react violently to the roar of the parade and crowds, spent hours conditioning the mounts by feeding them heavy doses of Spike Jones recordings over loudspeakers. As a result, by Inauguration Day the horses were immune to noise...
As the circling DC-4 bounced through the tropical thunderstorm over Elisabethville, a cryptic message crackled down to the tower: "I've got a big parcel for you fellows." Minutes later, the parcel stumbled down the plane ramp into the eager hands of the tough Katanga gendarmes. It was...
The Deep South state of Georgia last week gracefully acknowledged that integration in its white schools must begin. Back to the University of Georgia came the two young Negroes who were the targets of a bawling mob only a few days before. In came local cops, private cops, state cops...
Still worried about the extremists ("Wait till those cops leave"), the moderates plan to escort the Negroes after the police stop, have "400 people we can count on." They can also count on the firm support of an aroused faculty, which is not only doing sentry duty across the campus...
Died. Samuel Dashiell Hammett, 66, seclusive insomniac whose tours-de-corpse (Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon) revolutionized detective fiction by taking murder out of the hands of English butlers and giving it back to the people who usually commit it; of chronic lung disease; in New York City. A onetime...