Word: cordone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...central-government troops back into town. From sources unknown, the anti-Lumumba forces have acquired automatic weapons and mortars. Reports from Bakwanga at week's end told of streets littered with almost 300 bodies. The few remaining whites were said to have taken refuge behind a thin cordon of Tunisian troops at a nearby country club. From Katanga, 600 hastily recruited Mining State irregulars, accompanied by 30 women to do their cooking, were heading south to join the fighting...
...interests range far beyond science and business. His love for popular music led him to found the Fairchild Recording Equipment Corp., a high-quality manufacturer of sound reproduction products. His enthusiasms include architecture (he helped design his own house), cooking (he studied at Paris' Cordon Bleu cooking school), jazz (he plays a competent hot piano), dancing, philosophy, tennis and-since he is one of Manhattan's most eligible bachelors-beautiful women. Almost anything can touch off a new interest: irritated one day at the way his matches blew out in the wind while he tried to light...
Next morning U.S. Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II slipped through the cordon of 300 cops guarding Tokyo's U.S. embassy and set out for the quiet residence of Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama, well removed from downtown Tokyo. With him MacArthur carried the U.S. ratification papers, which, in a kind of "hold for release" technique unprecedented in diplomatic history, had been shipped to Japan fortnight ago complete with the signatures of President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Herter. Three hours earlier, at a signal from Ike, MacArthur had inserted into the papers the date of Senate ratification. While 300 students demonstrated...
...still a most respected U.S. citizen in Japanese eyes. In his suite in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers last week, MacArthur received a Japanese diplomat, who gave the old soldier the highest decoration that Japan ever confers upon a foreigner who is not a head of state: the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers. Said MacArthur: "I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander...
...chanted the student rioters as, with locked arms, they snake danced crazily before Premier Nobusuke Kishi's suburban home. Behind drawn curtains, protected by a cordon of police, barbed wire and a high wall, the aging Premier could hear the voices crying, "Kill Kishi! Kill Kishi!" Deserted by most of his Cabinet, his chief of police and the weak-kneed leaders of his Liberal Democratic Party, Kishi had finally asked President Dwight Eisenhower to cancel his visit to Japan...