Word: donald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT (Angel). British Satirists Michael Flanders and Donald Swann have recently returned to Broadway with a new collection of dotty ditties about the gas man (who "cometh") and De Gaulle ("all gall"). This LP was recorded in London but is essentially the same as the U.S. show, and besides-it's the only recording that will be released...
...Communists-a high for any American unit. In what they call their "Kit Carson Program," the Marines often use Viet Cong defectors as scouts, paying them $41 a month. "They point out the guy we'd been walking right past for so long," says Colonel Donald Mallory, 50, commander of the 5,000-man 1st Marine Regiment. The scouts frequently enable the Marines to set ambushes, recently were instrumental in helping the Marines discover a secret meeting of regional Viet Cong leaders. In a fierce battle, the Marines killed 61, thus largely stripping the V.C. of their area leadership...
...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT is a visit with an urbane, engaging pair of hosts, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, who invite those devoted to civilized wit in for a bit of a daft...
...Donald Conn, the state's prosecuting attorney (and coincidentally, a classmate of Bailey's at Boston University Law School), admitted that DeSalvo unquestionably was a sick man, but he and the prosecution psychiatrists launched a strong rebuttal to the defense contention that DeSalvo was "a completely uncontrollable vegetable walking around in a human body." The traditional Massachusetts rule for legal insanity holds that a defendant is sane unless he is unable to tell right from wrong or is governed by irresistible impulse. Both sides conceded that De-Salvo knew that what he was doing was wrong...
...slumped figure in the hospital bore little resemblance to the shrewd, assured President Johnson the country came to know." Kennedy's assistant press secretary Mac Kilduff, reported that on addressing Johnson as "Mr. President" for the first time, he "looked at me like I was Donald Duck." In the confusion Secret Service agents urged Johnson to take the J.F.K. presidential plane out of Dallas. It was L.B.J. who balked at the idea and flatly refused to board the plane until he had express approval from Kennedy's staff. As for the Lady Bird, she insisted on going first...