Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disavowal is necessary. Friendship and Fratricide only further complicates the already hopelessly complicated questions surrounding Alger Hiss's alleged crime. But Zeligs is less than consistent in his avowed aims: he denies at the outset any desire to prove Hiss's innocence, because he is treading on unsure ground; later the distinction between pschoanalysis and detective-work is ignored and finally abandoned when Zeligs finds certain propositions incompatible with the possibility of Hiss's guilt. His initial disclaimer is just a way of excusing subsequent excursions into the unprovable...
Punji sticks bloomed like lethal lotus on every side, and bunkers by the dozen thrust from the sand dunes as the Marine company moved through the brush 14 miles northwest of Hué. The territory was familiar ground to the one civilian with the Marines: stout, cheerful Bernard Fall, who, by his books and visits to the country, had made himself the best-known international commentator on Viet...
...body lift into the air even before they heard the explosion. Though a Marine patrol had passed safely through the area only seconds before, Fall's boot had come upon a buried land mine left by the Viet Cong. Badly maimed by shrapnel, Fall sank to the ground, was dead within two minutes. The photographer died with...
Troubles Galore. The party, which is an unwieldy conglomerate of rival, disparate factions, lost ground for just about all the reasons that can flare up in a hungry, desperate land. It was blamed for the food shortages that are plaguing India for the second successive year; for violent riots, which Indira's permissiveness sometimes seemed to encourage; and for the country's stagnant economy, which no amount of five-year plans and doses of bureaucratic management have managed to get off dead center. Not all the blame rightfully belongs to Indira: India, especially during a drought...
Intercollegiate championships, Pasarell's style on the court reinforced his playboy image. A flashy but erratic power hitter who depended mainly on the big serve he calls "the bomb" and heavy, top-spin ground strokes, he was sometimes spectacular, but often seemed to lack the concentration necessary for center-court competition. "I've beaten just about everybody in the world," he allowed, "but I've been beaten by just about everybody too." Said his father, a former Puerto Rican men's champion: "In stroking, Charlie doesn't have much to learn...