Word: h
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...awfully good at maintaining order when they want to," said a U.S. official, "and we think they'll want to." The capital's riot cops?the Algeria-honed Compagnie Republicaine de Securite?are among the best anywhere. Moreover, the Quai d'Orsay's chief Asia expert, Etienne Manac'h, is both reliable and impartial in his dealings with foreign diplomats...
Harriman's public history is, with only a few gaps, parallel to and part of the sweep of U.S. foreign policy since the eve of World War II. Son of Railroad Baron E. H. Harriman (Union Pacific), whom Teddy Roosevelt castigated as one of the "malefactors of great wealth," William Averell Harriman has been a Secretary of Commerce (under Harry Truman), Governor of New York (Nelson Rockefeller unseated him in 1958), ambassador to Moscow during the war and to the Court of St. James's afterward. Of the major World War II conferences, he missed only Quebec...
...Pass, by eight lengths. Only then, when the horses straightened out in the stretch, did Dancer's Image really begin to run. With Jockey Ussery merely clucking to him, he rushed up along the rail, caught Forward Pass at the imi. pole and drew away to win by H lengths. The victory was worth $122,600 to Owner Fuller, 10% of which went to Ussery-who collected a similar prize last year aboard Proud Clarion and is the first jockey in 66 years to win the Derby twice...
...lost authority, and suddenly the Governor becomes as steely as his armor. Delivering a flaming polemic against the King, he sunders his own flagstaff and tromps the red-crossed flag of England underfoot. It is the most powerful moment of the evening and brings to vivid life D. H. Lawrence's comment that Amer ica was born in "black revulsion." Black with wrath, Endecott orders Merry Mount burned to the ground and the Indians massacred. The historical moment is a century and a half before the American Revolution, but as the first shots are fired, and puffs of acrid...
...SAMUEL H. Beer, professor of Government and Democratic Committeeman for Ward 8, believes that state legislators usually do not like to deal with ward committees. "A state politician wants to have ward committees in his hip pocket; otherwise they can be a thorn in his side," Beer said, noting that ward committee-members often oppose legislation in the primaries...