Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The ten-hour war was their answer. It began when a column of six dusty, yellow-painted tanks and three armored personnel carriers began lumbering across the Sinai Peninsula, headed west. The vehicles were Russian, captured during the Six-Day War. The Israeli soldiers aboard them spoke fluent Arabic and...
Sir: Frankly, your article "Bathtub on Wheels" [Aug. 22] depressed me greatly. There seems to be an ever-growing group of American young men who simply regard our remaining wildlands as obstacle courses for their machines. Anyone hoping to escape the filth and din of cities for the quiet beauty...
Died. Erika Mann, 63, German-born daughter of Novelist Thomas Mann, her self a highly regarded author noted for her powerfully anti-Nazi writings in the 1930s; of a brain tumor; in Zurich, Switzerland. Like her Nobel prizewinning father, Miss Mann was quick to speak out against Hitlerism, in 1933...
William Wilson, the second episode, comes as something of a relief; almost anything would. Louis Malle (The Thief of Paris) works some interesting cinematic variations on Poe's classic Doppelganger story, but Alain Delon and Brigitte Bardot seem, to put it gently, out of place. The kinetic opening, with...
Markham worked in Ted Kennedy's 1962 senatorial campaign, and through Robert Kennedy became an assistant U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts in 1964. Three years later, Lyndon Johnson named Markham to be the state's U.S. Attorney, the highest federal law officer in Massachusetts. Until July 19, Markham enjoyed...