Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prophets' Dream. Wallace finally bowed to reality in 1950, when the Communists invaded South Korea. He broke with the Progressive Party, advised the U.S. to rearm "as fast as possible," and became "convinced that Russia is out to dominate the world." In the years of cold war and domestic affluence, he became a forgotten figure. He spent his last years on his 115-acre experimental farm, Farvue, in New York's Westchester County, rising at 4 a.m. each day to work with his plants and to write. Mellowed in retirement, he quietly accepted an invitation to John Kennedy...
...Rowe reported her daughter missing, gave police the names of Schmid, Saunders and Mary French as possible sources of information. The three were questioned repeatedly, but police finally became convinced that Alleen had simply run away from home-a not uncommon occurrence among teen-agers in Tucson's fast-growing, mobile society where few families stay long enough to put down roots...
Four days and nights the battle around X Ray raged, while a remarkable concatenation of American firepower kept the estimated two attacking North Vietnamese battalions at bay. The 1st Air Cav's artillerymen poured more than 8,000 rounds into the area, firing so fast that their barrels often glowed red with heat. By day and night, tactical air pounded the enemy (see following story), and for the first time, in a series of ten raids, the giant B-52s from Guam were used in tactical support, blasting suspected enemy concentrations in the lowering mountains around X Ray. Bullwhip...
...Fast in the wake of John F. Kennedy: Man of the Sea and not so far behind the memoirs of Artie Schlesinger and Ted Sorensen comes yet another, My Life with Caroline and John-John, the chatty monologue of Maud Shaw, who was the Kennedys' faithful English nanny for seven years. She retired last spring, vowing that "my experiences are better kept to myself," but soon changed her mind. Despite "discreet" objections by Jacqueline Kennedy, her recollections began in the December Ladies' Home Journal. There are some homey anecdotes, such as the one about President Kennedy asking...
Patterson has not fought a good fight since the second bout with Ingemar Johansson. The fast, instinctive combinations that buried the Hammer of Thor are gone. Floyd went into both Liston bouts with a rigid pre-fight strategy -- indicative of a nature that has no place in the ring...