Word: ens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whistler's Mother (correct title: Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1, Portrait of the Painter's Mother) was en route to Atlanta, to appear as an official gesture of sympathy by the French government for the death of 121 Georgians who were killed when a plane chartered by the Atlanta Art Association crashed at Orly Airport near Paris last June. Whistler's Mother's traveling companion was The Penitent St. Mary Magdalen, by the 17th century French painter Georges de La Tour, also lent to Atlanta by the Louvre. The arrival of the paintings...
...Force That Counts. Today, said McNamara, "the size, variety and power of our strategic retaliatory forces still greatly exceed those of the Soviets. Allowing for losses from an initial enemy attack and attrition en route to target, we calculate that our forces today could still destroy the Soviet Union." This is the well-known "second strike force," and since the U.S. does not intend to strike first, it is the only force that counts...
...women and children in the past 14 years have died in a senseless and uncoordinated fury that no one seems able to end. The butchery is so much a part of national life that many Colombians have learned to ignore it. Last week a powerful new book, La Violencia en Colombia, was creating a stir in Bogotá. It attempts to understand the killing, measure its costs, and bring Colombians face-to-face with the bloody, bitter consequences...
...very many Germans or very many other Europeans could be happy with the grandiose task Charles de Gaulle had set himself. In the long run, it was creation of a Gaullist third force in the great-powers equation. En route, he was rejecting supranational Europe, brushing aside the proposed multilateral nuclear deterrent to preserve total weapons sovereignty for himself, rebuffing Britain for frankly selfish political reasons, and, in fact, rejecting the whole Atlantic Community concept with its overtones of American participation. It was perhaps the U.S. voice in Europe that De Gaulle feared most. He was even preparing to control...
...French freighter Mont Blanc, en route from New York to Bordeaux, entered the Halifax roadstead on the morning of Dec. 6. The Mont Blanc was only a 3,000-tonner, but its cargo was something more than mere ammunition. Every usable square foot of cargo space was crammed with raw explosives-200 tons of TNT and 2,300 tons of lyddite, which is more powerful than TNT. On deck, reeking like an Esso station, were 35 tons of benzole in drums stacked three high...