Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...line party loyalists, Lyndon Johnson came out at his fightingest. Before a Democratic National Committee group in New York City, Johnson, red-faced and leaning forward as though to bite the microphone, waved his fist and slammed at Nixon as "a man who distorts the history of his time." For a change, Johnson seemed to be enjoying the battle and to believe, like Humphrey, that the party might survive this week...
...Yugoslav troop deployments. Journalists from Warsaw Pact countries are more inquisitive than ever. Hungarian truck drivers carrying loads of tomatoes and paprika to Yugoslav markets wander off the main road and somehow blunder into Yugoslav troops in border regions. Tito fears that Soviet agents, working with die-hard ethnic groups, will make an attempt on his life. But both sides can play that game. Last week three leaders of an exile group of anti-Tito Croatians were found shot to death in their Munich office, and other Croatian exiles put the blame on Tito's secret service...
...barrage signaled yet another notch of military escalation by the Egyptians, who are now more belligerent than at any other time since last year's Six-Day War. All week, Cairo had feted a group of MIG fighter pilots who claimed to have recently shot down three Israeli planes (the Israelis dryly commented that "all of our planes returned safely to base"). Now Egypt's War Minister and Commander in Chief, Lieut. General Muhammad Fawzi, visited the Suez front, liberally passing out medals and praise...
Like all totalitarian regimes, the Soviet Union attempts to seize and shape the minds of its young at an early, formative stage. For the group between the ages of 14 and 28, the instrument to that end is the Communist Youth League, or the Komsomol. Last week, as early snow and biting cold embraced Moscow, thousands of Komsomoltsy marched through the capital to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their organization and to pledge, amid red banners and slogans, unsparing efforts in the struggle for Communism...
...Within "group journalism" (a phrase he sometimes used but did not approve of), Luce gave his staff an extraordinary degree of independence. "As an editor," writes Elson, "he did not like to lay down guidelines and rules; he understood that creative writers and editors worked better if given wide latitude. He was often disappointed in their work, but he accepted the risk as part of the price of aggressive journalism...