Word: d
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JAMES D. CLUTTER Decatur...
Wallace told the press that his wife, Alabama Governor Lurleen Wallace, had been a spiritual force behind his decision to run. But Mrs. Wallace, recovering from her latest series of radiation treatments for pelvic cancer at Houston's M. D. Anderson Hospital, could not come to Washington for George's announcement...
...rignon '62 and the guests kept pouring out Franco-German friendship. At one particularly ebullient moment, De Gaulle rose with a toast to "the friendship that our two peoples have sealed, guided by reason and emotion alike." Then a messenger arrived from the Quai d'Orsay, bearing an urgent news dispatch for Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. It was datelined Ravensburg, West Germany, and it froze the frail Couve in his mahogany chair. It also launched one of the stormiest-and most ludicrous-weeks to date in the increasingly difficult area of Franco-German relations...
...D. H. Lawrence was a paladin of explicit sex in a world still impressed by censors; he might be surprised to see how his novella The Fox had to be fixed up for 1968 movie audiences. Sex had to be put in rather than taken out. Director Mark Rydell has seen fit to heat his movie up with three gratuitous physical set-tos-girl and man in hunting cabin, girl and girl in bed, girl and herself in bathroom. The result is slick, sick psychological melodrama...
...letters to Cicero, Julius Caesar employed a cipher in which each character was replaced by one standing three places down the alphabet-thus D stood for a, E for b, F for c, etc. Mary Queen of Scots wrote conspiratory messages in cipher; when intercepted and interpreted by England's first great cryptanalyst, Thomas Phelippes, they helped bring Mary to the chopping block. In the U.S., Benedict Arnold employed several codes, including one that was keyed to Volume I of the fifth Oxford edition of Blackstone's Commentaries...