Word: guinea
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...even calmer and quieter than Lemnitzer. "You could set a bomb off under his desk and he wouldn't turn a hair," a fellow officer once said. He, too, specialized in logistics during World War II, but won a Silver Star in combat in New Guinea. Army Comptroller in 1952-55 and later commander of the U.N. forces in Korea, Decker succeeded Lemnitzer as Vice Chief of Staff in 1959. A graduate of Lafayette College, General Decker provides one more argument against the widespread notion that only a West Point graduate can reach...
...works quite the way it should in Indonesia. Scarcely had the red and white flags been put up to celebrate the nation's 15th independence day last week when workmen were back in the streets of Djakarta. Their task: to take down 12-ft.-high poster portraits of Guinea's President Sekou Toure and Egypt's Vice President Abdel Hakim Amer, both of whom had reneged, without notice, on promises to put in an appearance at the independence-day festivities...
...black and white forces (Swedish, Moroccan and Ethiopian), demanded a totally black force instead. "African troops," he insisted, "are completely capable of carrying out the U.N. mission." In Accra, Ghana's Nkrumah was still talking up the formation of an "All-African" army composed of units from Ghana, Guinea, the U.A.R. and "volunteers" from all the continent...
...chocolate brown and yellow, with no intention of stopping there. Wives and children helped clear the track of weeds, and retired railroad men nostalgically offered their services free if locomotives and rolling stock could be found. To raise cash. 1,350 memberships in the society were sold at 1 guinea ($2.94) a year. Impressed at last, the ministry agreed to rent the society the Bluebell's trackage for $6,300 a year...
...nightclub nudes stand like statues and never come to life. The law is still in force, but the strip joints are run as private clubs. Collectively, the clubs-some 150 in all, employing nearly a thousand girls-have swiftly acquired at least 500,000 card-carrying members (at 1 guinea or $2.95 for life membership). One club, reported the Spectator last week, includes among its members "ten M.P.s, eight millionaires, more than 60 knights, 35 peers, and enough businessmen and captains of industry to drain dry the Stock Exchange and the Savoy Grill...