Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born Oct. 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, where his father, David Eisenhower, was a railroad-yard mechanic, Dwight was brought to Abilene at the age of two. The family was never well off?David Eisenhower rarely earned more than $100 a month?and the six boys worked hard to help out. Dwight sold vegetables grown on his family's three acres and stoked furnaces at the Belle Springs Creamery, where, at 19, he became night foreman...
...assure the total destruction of an enemy-turned primarily on the difficulty of determining a nation's future offensive capacity. Packard stuck to his estimates. He admitted, however, that Defense Department projections were based on the "payload capability" of Russia's new S59 missile rather than on hard intelligence that large warheads are actually being installed on them...
...National Assembly, said that "President Thieu should have thought of this measure sooner." Supporters of Lawyer Truong Dinh Dzu, the runner-up in the 1967 presidential elections who campaigned on a peace platform and is now in jail, reminded the world that Dzu was sentenced to five years at hard labor last year for suggesting direct talks with the N.L.F. "Thieu should get ten years," said a Saigon politician. A leader of the North Vietnamese Catholic refugees who came South after the 1954 armistice warned that "if this direct talk with the N.L.F. leads to recognition of the N.L.F...
Boston fans are not noted for their unwavering loyalty. They jeered Ted Williams through every grand derisive gesture, and even the consistently heroic Bill Russell is treated to a cacophony of catcalls during his rare falls from hard-court grace. But this year Brahmins and Black Irish alike have had nothing but praise for their beloved Bruins, who at week's end were in second place behind Montreal, the National Hockey League's perennial champions. Skating, shooting and clubbing their way to their best finish in ten years, the Bruins shattered all N.H.L. team-scoring records...
Hair--A hippie "Hellzapoppin" with a lot of spirit and a nice score firmly based in the vocabulary of early rock. Only when the authors try too hard to explain to our parents what the new culture is all about do things become a little thick. Tom O'Horgan is the director, and the nice cast includes Barry McGuire and the nice Heather MacRae. At the BILTMORE, W. 47th...