Word: curfews
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...marines spend much of their time filling sandbags for bunkers. The heat is oppressive, the mosquitoes abundant. The only place to go on liberty is Danang, a dreary city with a 10 p.m. curfew and varieties of venereal disease for which U.S. medical science has not yet come up with a cure...
...ticket to Leningrad to audition for the Kirov. Though by Russian standards he was about six years late in beginning his formal training, he was accepted for the Kirov's ballet school. He immediately distinguished himself as its most brilliant and most unmanageable student, violated every curfew regulation, fought with his instructors. He lectured a teacher in front of the whole company on the evils of the Kirov's "systematic wearing-down of the individual," took private English lessons and read J. D. Salinger. He refused to join the Komsomol, a training group for the Communist Party...
...fraternities and sororities. At the University of Washington in Seattle, students were loudly objecting to forced membership in the student association. At the University of Chicago, 200 students shivered in wind-driven snow on the main quadrangle to sing freedom songs, while coeds threatened a "sleep-out" to protest curfew hours...
...next to Stan Musial, of course. Stricken with tuberculosis in 1958, Schoendienst had part of a lung removed, came back to bat .300 in both 1961 and 1962. Red worked as a coach for Keane last year, and he obviously picked up a few pointers. He announced a midnight curfew, took to the field himself to demonstrate how to elude a rundown...
...Saigon last week things were quiet enough on the surface for officials to lift the nightly curfew so that New Year revelers could keep singing and drinking into the wee hours. It seemed hardly appropriate amid the tense political maneuvering taking place behind the scenes...