Word: exception
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...predictability of assassin types. Drs. Robert L. Taylor and Alfred E. Weisz noted that of the nine men involved in the eight known attempts on the lives of American Presidents, all were Caucasian males aged 24 to 40. All were smaller than average in stature. All were unknowns, except John Wilkes Booth. Most importantly, "each of these men had some cause or grievance that appeared obsessional, if not delusional, in intensity." (Richard Lawrence, for instance, who tried to kill Andrew Jackson, thought that he was Richard III of England and that the U.S. owed him huge sums of money.) Careful...
...were wrested from the owners by taxation, fraud and theft as well as legal purchase. Descendants of the Andalusian pioneers live in squalid adobe shacks. Of the county's 23,000 people, 19,000 are Spanish Americans, and 11,000 are on welfare. Schools are bad, roads impossible except for a single badly potholed highway. Those who still own plots are discouraged from grazing their cattle in the national forests that occupy much of the county. Fenced out from their Tierra Amarilla, the Spanish Americans of Rio Arriba have turned to an odd messiah preaching an impossible dream...
Then he scribbled a note on a piece of paper and handed it to Minister of Information Joël le Theule. It said simply that a communique would be issued at 7:45 that evening. Neither Le Theule nor any other Cabinet official, except perhaps Couve, had a clear idea of what the President would do. Typically, De Gaulle did not make his decision known to his Cabinet or talk about his solution. He said only, "Thank you, gentlemen. I will take your views into consideration...
When the money men assembled in the barracks-style structure that houses the West German Economics Ministry, Schiller wasted little time in making clear his opposition to the revaluation of the mark. As the meeting dragged on into evening, tempers began to flare. "They did everything except throw chairs at each other," said one participant. Bitter exchanges broke out between the world's leading monetary managers. According to one report, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer lectured the West German Finance Minister "as if he were a member of the Conservative Opposition." Jenkins himself was heckled outside...
...they should now be of optimistic evaluations, translate into the belief that the war is going in the allies' favor. The middle part of the country, II Corps, is quiet. Communist forces have either gone into hiding, drifted further south or slipped across the Cambodian and Laotian borders. Except for a massive, six-battalion attempt by the South Vietnamese last week in Chau Doc province to take a vital Viet Cong stronghold, the fertile and populous Delta area of IV Corps is equally calm...