Word: daylighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...code names for October, November and December are Sorrowful, Frightful and Appalling. In this Year of the Klan 100, they may be Ruinous too. For whatever individual nemeses may await the Klan's various leaders during 13 weeks of public hearings before the House Un-American Activities Committee, daylight and logic are as lethal to the huggermugger mystique of the "invisible empire" as Lysol is to microbes...
...Office, which handles psychological warfare in South Viet Nam. Funeral dirges howl nightly over V.C. redoubts from the loud speakers of JUSPAO planes, along with the tape-recorded cries of little children, and weird, electronic cacophonies intended to raise terrifying images of forest demons among the superstitious terrorists. During daylight hours, JUSPAO'S eight aircraft dump tons of leaflets on the enemy-3,500,000 a week, ranging from safe-conduct passes to maps showing the best way out of Red territory. Says one of JUSPAO'S "psywar" adepts: "We're the world's worst litterbugs...
...gone mod and turned into a granny. It happened in Los Angeles, and within a month grannies had shown up on Wilshire Boulevard in broad daylight, at the Beatles concert in the Hollywood Bowl, at Disneyland and U.C.L.A...
...often happen to comets when they pass close to the sun. In 1846 a comet split into two pieces in a latter of days. In 1744 a comet emerged from behind the sun with five talis where one had been before. And in 1843 comet was visible in broad daylight: While about half a dozen comets are discovered in an average year, spectacular ones such as these come very rarely...
Russia produced the first great thriller, Feodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment-but times have changed. In contemporary Soviet society, crime reporting is permitted only where it serves the state, and by such standards, Petrovka 38 is a veritable revelation. The story describes two murders, daring daylight holdups, drug addiction, even a soupçon of illicit sex. In permitting the book's publication abroad, Soviet authorities may have been disarmed by its moral: Russia's GUMshoes are efficient, decent. and humane. After deciding that one of the outlaws, a 17-year-old poet, is guilty...