Word: herded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ENGLAND SWINGS (Smash). Roger Miller (Dang Me, Do-Wacka-Do, You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd) can pull a hit out of a hat. He recommends taking the family to England, because England swings, what with Westminster Abbey, Big Ben and "bobbies on bicycles...
...Muffled Herd. Despite five American generators, Conakry suffers from a permanent power shortage. Nightfall in the Medina, Conakry's most populous quarter, is barely dispelled by flickering candles and the dim yellow of underpowered bulbs. Hard pressed for power, the Chinese Communists who staff Peking's aid program recently put to use an American electric generator (provided to Guinea by U.S. aid) in their cigarette factory at Wassawassa-until U.S. officials demanded its removal. Last month Sékou Touré's prestigious but overextended Air Guinée had to cease operations: only...
...well-organized riot, the entire student bodies of Radcliffe College, Lesley College, and the Longy School of Music assault the Yard and herd all freshmen into waiting trucks with all their belongings except their pants. The girls put on the pants. New York Mayor John V. Lindsay uncovers an eternal spring of fresh water by striking his rod against the Empire State Building. Ronald Reagan engages California Governor Edmund G. (Pat) Brown in a series of debates. Reagan, clasping his shawl tight to his shoulders, persists in calling Brown "Senator Douglas" and talking about his boyhood in Illinois...
...satisfyingly in William Mulvihill's novel. Here they are spelled out according to the conventions of steam-heated movie melodrama, but the film still turns the guesswork into good grim fun. Competition within the group begins in earnest after they find refuge in a hillside cave. While a herd of baboons observes the vagaries of humankind, the six rapidly dwindle. The hardy pilot (Nigel Davenport) sets off to seek help. An old German (Harry Andrews) and a professorial type (Theodore Bikel) are eliminated one way or another by the fittest male, Stuart Whitman, who is left to look...
...after the sale of Curtis' Lock Haven, Pa., paper mill earlier this year. "We are over the hill," says the vice chairman of Boston's First National Bank, Serge Semenenko, the financier who put together a $35 million loan for Curtis in 1963 and has been riding herd on the company ever since. "The first phase has ended," Semenenko says. "That was to save the company. The second phase is about to begin: an infusion of talent, brains, funds; possible acquisitions; relations with others...