Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best thing that could have happened to him-as for Jack Kennedy was his loss of the 1956 runner-up spot to Estes Kefauver. Humphrey, fenced in by the responsibilities of the office and his allegiance to "my only constituent," as he calls the President, is powerless to counter Kennedy's growing appeal. "He's been too good a Vice President," says a Democratic Congressman of Humphrey. "He's absolutely dead," says another. Both could be wrong, of course, for six years is a long way off. "As far as we know," shrugs a Humphrey aide...
...completed a year from now, it will be, at 892 ft., the tallest tower in Germany. That is, until Munich's 951-ft. tower is finished a few months later. But then. East Berlin will have one 1,185 ft. tall by 1969. West Berlin may counter with a 1,312-footer...
Down with Demons. Lin rode to the threshold of power on the purge. It was Lin's army newspaper that ten months ago heralded the nation's return to a stern revolutionary discipline by calling for a campaign against the "black antiparty, anti-Socialist line that runs counter to Mao's thought." In fact, Mao earlier this month commissioned Lin to use the army to turn all China into a "revolutionary school" and every Chinese into a soldier...
...Shannon, Ireland, and about 400 in London, where a party of Massachusetts schoolteachers bedded down on airport couches. The strain in Spain was mainly to get aboard Iberia Airlines planes from Madrid to New York. Last week police quelled one fracas in which 19 irate tourists threatened to slug counter attendants and then stormed the runway gates when told that their supposedly confirmed reservations could not be honored...
...except perhaps about taste. Faced with the espionage writer's inevitable decision of choosing between Ian Fleming's rollicking escapism and John le Carre's gritty realism, Author Behn, a onetime off-Broadway producer who served for two years in the U.S. Army's counter-intelligence corps, cops out. The result is a pop horror comic about a mission to Moscow by a team of freelance operatives: a sadistic rapist, a dehumanized naval officer, a pimp, a homosexual, and a beautiful young girl who is not only an electronics genius but can tie knots...