Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...managed to convey the impression, if not establish as fact, that he was indeed making progress. He could still hope for a lucky break-sudden agreement at the Paris peace talks, for instance, or a spicy Republican scandal. In Maryland, reporters from at least half a dozen major publications were delving into Spiro Agnew's financial affairs, looking for evidence to buttress old speculation that Agnew was implicated in conflict-of-interest situations while a Baltimore county official. Nothing new or sensational was turned up by week's end, but the fact that there was any inquiry...
There was not even much reason to cheer last week as Hungarian, Polish and Bulgarian troops, and the first Russians, began to depart. The East Germans had already gone home. But some 75,000 Soviet troops will remain stationed along a central line that virtually cuts the country in half, and 60 guns still ring Prague. The one major concession that the Soviets made in the treaty governing the "temporary" stationing of their troops in Czechoslovakia carried an ominous loophole. The status-of-forces clause in the treaty provided that Czechoslovak law should apply to occupying soldiers as well...
Mobs of screaming students last week swarmed through the vast Shinjuku rail way station, Tokyo's largest. Wearing plastic helmets, the lower half of their faces masked with towels as a protection against tear gas, the students scrambled over tracks and platforms, smashing train windows, disemboweling seats, splintering and setting fire to doors, benches and stairways. One rioter shinnied up a pole to smash the signal lights - he touched a high-voltage line and crashed to earth in a shower of sparks, critically injured...
...diplomatic happenings on the Avenue d'léna have become a new fix ture of the Paris scene. So far, the Shrivers have staged half a dozen soirees for 30 to 50 young French and American students and professional people. Shriver acts as moderator, pacing about, sitting in a chair or squatting on the floor. On one such evening, Economist Walter Heller discussed the new Gaullist idea of employee participation in management with French economics students, financial writers and young Finance Ministry experts. Another evening pitted Evangelist Billy Graham against the World Council of Churches' Eugene Carson...
Fluent Prattle. The Brantford doctors sent the baby to the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. There, when Michael was 41 months old, Neurosurgeon Bruce Hendrick cut out the entire right half of his brain. Hendrick by now has done 17 such operations, or hemispherectomies. The youngest patient was 26 days old and weighed five pounds...