Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President of the U.S. -crushing around the DC-6B just landed at Washington's National Airport. In the plane's doorway appeared Vice President and Mrs. Richard Nixon, back from their tumultuous 18-day tour of Latin America. This was their homecoming, rare in its deep-felt warmth...
...Place de la Concorde a mob of 6,000 right-wingers led by burly ex-Poujadist Jean-Marie Le Pen -sporting the tricolor sash of a Deputy and the green beret of his old paratroop regiment -came face to face with rifle-toting police drawn up in columns four deep. For a time the mob hesitated. Then, with cries of "Algeria is French!" and "Throw the Deputies into the Seine!", the rightists made a wild rush for the Concorde bridge leading to the National Assembly. In minutes, they reeled back in flight, blinded by gas grenades, battered by rifle butts...
...Only Means." Massu's deep voice boomed across the crowded square, reading a message he had just wired to President Coty and to General de Gaulle:* "We inform you that we have set up a Committee of Public Safety under the presidency of General Massu, owing to the seriousness of the situation and the need to maintain order and avoid bloodshed. The committee awaits with vigilance the formation of a Government of Public Safety -the only means of keeping Algeria an integral part of French territory...
...Bolivia, where the 11,900-ft. altitude gave the newsmen soroche -high-altitude sickness. Forced to run through crowds to keep up with Nixon, most came down with splitting headaches and failing memories. Hardest hit was Associated Press Photographer Henry Griffin, 46, who had to take deep draughts from a heavy oxygen tank he toted on his back. Cracked Griffin: "Let's get off this hill -I want to die breathing...
Capp claims to have a deep respect for Harvard--tempered, however, by amusement. Born in New Haven as the son of a Yalie, he first came to Cambridge in 1936 as a student in a summer course in composition and short story writing. After about three weeks, he dropped out, "in order to help the instructor, who seemed in most desperate need of help." At this time, Capp moved from his home on Brattle Street and took up residence in New Hampshire. He returned to Cambridge eight years...