Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WOMAN. Italian Director Marco Ferreri fashions a superb parable of man's inhumanity from this squalid tale about a fast-buck promoter who meets, marries and makes a freak show of a girl (Annie Girardot) covered from head to toe with brown silky hair...
...carrying special electronic "hearing" equipment; because of the ships' sensitive, U-2-like role, the Pentagon was unwilling to release their names. Early in the evening of Sept. 18, the destroyers picked up the four skunks, found them to be moving at speeds of around 40 knots-too fast to be anything but torpedo boats. The destroyers increased their own speed to 30 knots, began running a zigzag course, and kept their narrow sterns to the approaching blips...
...part, timed him at 90 seconds between the time he left his motorcycle and the time he encountered (but did not arrest) Oswald outside a second-floor lunchroom. Could Oswald have run that quickly from the sixth floor to the second? A Secret Service agent, testing, moved at a "fast walk" from the killer's lair to the lunch room in 78 seconds?without being winded...
...long fall-and fast. Hank Bauer's Orioles simply lost 13 out of 26 games, while the New York Yankees were winning 19 out of 22, including the last eleven in a row. After a listless sojourn in third place, Yogi Berra's pinstriped legions sniffed the green stuff and snapped to attention. So lame that his teammates winced every time he hit the ball, Mickey Mantle, that matchless pro, was still batting .303, with 33 homers and 102 R.B.I.s. Catcher Elston Howard went on a sudden streak, hitting safely in twelve straight games, and Roger Maris perked...
...blighted neighborhood usually equals a blighted school-and if Detroit's 2,800-student, 99% Negro Central High School accepted this common equation, it would be wilting fast. It is, by contrast, a powerhouse of good education...