Word: emblems
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...Hoare adopted the Wild Goose emblem for his commandos in the Congo, and it became notorious in 1964 when the mercenaries "liberated" Stanleyville from the "Simba" rebels...
...significant achievement is the modest march it organized on Oct. 25 in Paris. On the ground floor of Langignon's offices in a working-class section of Paris is a collection of posters that includes onetime Member Pablo Picasso's sketch of the dove that became the familiar peace emblem. "Picasso said he didn't have enough time to think up a symbol," Langignon recalls. Suddenly French Communist Writer Louis Aragon reached into Picasso's cluttered folder, picked up a lithograph of a pigeon, and said, "Why don't you use this?" Langignon...
...that once powerful emblem of the times is disappearing, no longer necessary to the smooth functioning of new computers. Advanced machines have optical scanners that read words, numbers and symbols and do not need the punch to process information. Since the scanning computers can be more cost-efficient, the changeover is coming quickly, and millions of old computer cards are being tossed away. Says A.G.W. Biddle, president of the Computer and Communications Industry Association: "Probably the only major users left are those with antiquated equipment, especially the Government and various utility companies...
...inevitability does not make the transition any easier, especially for those Danburyites who have seen their city shift from farming to hatmaking to light industry without its essential character changing. And one emblem of constancy had always been the fair. Back in 1946, the fairground was taken over by a local man, John W. Leahy, who in the early 1920s transformed his machine shop into one of the largest oil and gas distributorships in the area. Leahy journeyed as far as London to buy some stock from a shareholder in the society that had run the fair since its founding...
...their rebellious answer to the kitschy pop tunes and folk songs the authorities want them to hear. Although they often have problems with the censors, some rock songwriters manage to have their say. Garbed in fire engine-red pants and white shirt decorated with a splashy 7-Up emblem, Graps sang: "Since we have nowhere else to make love/ we do it out in the open/ And sometimes the rain washes away the makeup/ from her face-and mine...