Word: highlander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end the outcome of the costly fight around Due Hoa was still in doubt. But U.S. planners are pressing forward on half a dozen fronts: in the highland region bordering Laos-a favorite Red supply route-the U.S. is arming and organizing some 6,000 mountaineer tribesmen long neglected by President Diem's government and wooed by the Communists. The U.S. is superintending the building of jungle airstrips capable of handling planes as big as C-47s, and encouraging the development of auxiliary arms, ranging from communications teams to girl sharpshooters. The U.S. is also sponsoring...
...Highland Park. Mich. (pop. 43,000), all ten of the city's schools were closed temporarily due to a suit charging segregation at one all-Negro school. In New Rochelle. N.Y.. where Negro parents recently won a similar case involving predominantly Negro Lincoln Elementary School, the school board dutifullv transferred 267 of Lincoln's 454 pupils to white schools (while preparing an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court). In New York City, which recently began allowing Negroes to transfer to under-capacity schools anywhere in the city, 50 Negro parents threatened to "strike" on the ground that...
...owners say they plan to take in as many neighbors as possible in addition to their own families, then lock the door tight when there is no more room. "But it will be a hard thing to do," says President Frank F. Norton of Norton Atomic Shelter Corp. in Highland Park, Ill. "What sends chills up and down my spine is imagining a child or two out there saying 'Let me in!' when you're full and you just can't let him in. It could happen, I know...
Tunes of Glory (Colin Lesslie; Lopert). Up at the castle the pipers are piping a jig for Jock Sinclair. Rank: acting C.O. of a Highland battalion. Origin: wrong side of Glasgow. Military record: rose through the ranks, took command of the battalion at El Alamein. led it to glory. Personal data: has hair like ginger and a temper to match. Remarks: Jock loves the battalion, the battalion loves Jock, and the paughty people who see this picture will love him too. because Jock Sinclair is one of the most lifelike creatures that ever sprang full-snooted from the jovial brow...
...suburb of Highland Park will go up a Black Sheep Club where the pretty waitresses will be long of leg and short of clothes, the drinks expensive ($1.50 a shot), and the access limited to gentlemen keyholders and their guests. The building will be the newest addition to the fast-growing number of key clubs whose keys have become a new status symbol for those who do their playing on expense accounts...