Word: cracks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Porter's show is not at all the re-make of Garbo's wonderful film Ninotchka it pretends to be: it is really one long burlesque skit, as its title suggests, recalling the glorious days when our forefathers went to hear Milton Berle or Ed Wynn or Phil Silvers crack jokes that hurt, and pinch backsides that apparently couldn't be. Even in the generally disastrous first act of Silk Stockings--when the scenery is swaying, and the music is too soft when people are singing, and too loud behind them when they're talking--there are moments when everybody...
MacDill Air Force Base; four in an RB-47 crash at Kindley Air Force Base in Bermuda; six in the crack-up of a C-135 transport at Guantanamo, and U-2 Pilot Major Rudolf Anderson, who was shot down by antiaircraft fire while on a photo-reconnaissance flight-one of more than 2,000 sorties over Cuba...
...Delhi Sandys, with the sympathetic support of Harriman, impressed on Jawaharlal Nehru that unless the Kashmir problem was solved, there would be little hope of defending the subcontinent against Chinese aggression. As they pointed out, four divisions of crack Indian troops had been tied down along the cease-fire line; Red China was trying to play Pakistan off against India by offering the Pakistanis a non-aggression pact. No longer counseled by ousted Defense Minister Krishna Menon, who obsessively regards Pakistan as India's main enemy, Nehru finally agreed to write Pakistan's President Ayub Khan, suggesting...
Late bloomers get a new crack at academic training. Says Headmaster William Hamblin of London's Samuel Pepys Comprehensive School: "Last year 150 boys-90% of whom had come here as eleven-plus failures-were able to take the ordinary GCE exam. Four boys, also failures, took the advanced GCE. All four passed and all are now at London University. A tremendous achievement." This year Pepys has 30 sixth-formers poised for university entrance...
Pakistan-seemed far less concerned with the fact that the Chinese invasion posed a real threat to its own frontiers than with how the crisis would affect its bitter and longstanding dispute with India over control of Kashmir. Bitterly. Pakistan pointed to the crack Indian divisions still positioned along the U.N. cease-fire line as proof that India was exaggerating the extent of the Chinese incursions. Echoing influential Pakistani officials who labeled India the "aggressor" in the border conflict. President Ayub Khan said that "international Communism" was far less of a danger to Pakistan than "Hindu imperialism," and that India...