Word: cordone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...screaming curses of protest against the U.S. air raids on North Viet Nam. Tipped off in advance, the embassy had called on the authorities for protection. As a result, 600 police were on the scene. But the cops did little to stop the mob from bursting through the cordon, vaulting a metal barrier, and scrambling over an improvised rampart of 30 snowplows...
Midst laurels stood: General Curtis LeMay, 58, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff and World War II Bomber Command boss, whose B-29s helped devastate Japan, decorated with Japan's Order of the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun for his role in building up the country's postwar defenses; U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough, 60, given the New York City U.S.O.'s gold medal "as one who symbolizes the support of U.S.O. by major industries of America"; Vinoba Bhave, 69, Gandhian holy man whose pilgrimages across India have netted 5,000,000 acres of "land...
...place in the back seat was unmistakably Juan Perón, now 69. Secrecy and surprise were his watchwords-and his only hopes of success. When the Mercedes roared into Madrid Airport, Iberian Flight 991 to Rio was warming up on the takeoff strip. Shielded by a waiting cordon of police, Perón, Jorge Antonio and Delia Parodi scrambled aboard the DC-8, where six other Peronistas were waiting for them...
Next day Klunder and about 1,000 other demonstrators returned to the school. Already awaiting them were dozens of Cleveland cops in a glowering cordon around the site. The inflamed mob threw rocks, bricks, bottles and chunks of cement at the policemen. Charging under a storm of stones, the demonstrators repeatedly tried to break through the lines. Thirteen persons-eight of them cops-were hurt. Twenty-six were arrested...
Robert F. Wagner. Jr. '65 has been named editor of The Harvard Review. Thomas R. Meites '65 is publisher and David M. Cordon '65 associate editor. Other new officers are Richard T. Legates '65, general manager; Kathy Emmett '65, secretary-treasurer; Robert Stern '65, circulation manager; and Daniel Singal '65, special projects editor...