Word: cracks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the S.A.O. had so far failed to provoke Moslems to massive retaliation against the Europeans of Algeria, there were signs that Algerian nationalist discipline was beginning to crack. Near Tlemcen, five French Spahis were killed in their sleep by Moslem soldiers. The five-man Council of Greater Algiers, which controls the city's half-million Moslem population, charged French laxity in suppressing European terrorism. In the Algiers Casbah, where Moslems have instituted their own 24-hour guard, an F.L.N. spokesman wondered how long the Algerian population could be held down: "We have a list of 5.000 known S.A.O...
Hints for Hercules. The military services will get a crack at the data, too. The Air Force is vitally interested in the effects of shock waves and radiation on its aircraft, and the Navy is equally concerned about its ships. The Army is waiting anxiously for the impact that the tests will have on its Nike-Hercules anti-missile program. It will be bad news for the Nike-Hercules if a test bomb exploded at high altitude makes the air opaque to radio waves. This might mean that an elaborate Nike-Hercules base could be blinded by a single nuclear...
Solitary Dissenter. For all their growing leeriness of the Kennedy Administration, businessmen were at least eager to see whether, in order to hold his noninflationary line. Kennedy would have to crack down on labor as hard as he had on Roger Blough...
...their lobbies. Nightclubs like the Tropicana-still ballyhooed as the world's biggest-continue to operate, but with a Cuba socialista beat, and the leggy pony chorus now does Russian folk dances. The great restaurants have two choices on the menu -half-dollar-sized steak (at $6 a crack) and spaghetti; on the street, the hamburger stands serve watery bean soup...
...their crumbling before I crack...