Word: damnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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News programs are devoted interminably to coverage of Cabinet meetings or scenes of officials dedicating schools and swimming pools. The International Herald Tribune described them as "the special kind of news in which the United States is alternately in the hands of race rioters or drum majorettes, where England is...
The Gadfly. Even if Continental doesn't get to fly commercially to the Orient, Six will continue to enjoy his role as gadfly. Six brags that Continental consistently leads the way in aircraft utilization, on-timesmanship and attractive fares. In his latest bit of gadding, he is trying to...
Died. Captain W. E. Johns, 75, the portly English author who created Biggies, a World War I flying ace whose daredevil exploits and incorruptible character thrilled a worldwide audience of 20 million readers; of pulmonary thrombosis; in Hampton Court, England. Writing of swirling aerial duels between Biggies' Sopwith Camel...
Edgar Pisani, De Gaulle's onetime Agriculture Minister (1961-66), defected from the Gaullist U.N.R. Party in order to support the censure. In a highly emotional speech, he damned the Gaullists for letting the situation "pourrir" (go to pot). "Your government," he cried, "had all the forces, all the chances...
When Ed Nosal walked onto the field two days after he got here the routine was no different. "They handed me the thing so I started throwing it," he now says after smashing the freshman indoor weight record with a 57' 9" throw and going undefeated in both events. "As...