Word: incidentals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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For some reason, that small incident triggered the frustrations of Montgomery's Negroes, who for years had bent subserviently beneath the prejudices of the white community. Within hours, the Negroes were embarked upon a bus boycott that was more than 99% effective, almost ruined Montgomery's bus line...
Antigovernment Dominicans cried massacre, charged that the troops had cold-bloodedly gunned down the youths as they tried to surrender. But the incident's effect went deeper than that. Among the dead was Antonio Barreiro, 27, godson of Emilio de los Santos, chief of the ruling junta itself. De...
In fine entrepreneurial fashion, the Council hired an advertising agency to aid in the development of the "selling" campaign. It decided to avoid all moral aspects of the problem. "The program confines itself," pamphlets declared "to Federal law, which insists that Dallas schools desegregate. All good citizens must obey the...
The rocket engine in the tail boomed the experimental NF-104A jet Starfighter up to 90,000 ft. and the edge of space. Then disaster. The craft went into a flat spin and plummeted out of control. In the cockpit, Air Force Colonel Charles (Chuck) Yeager, 40, first man to...
This time Solzhenitsyn's subjects are far less provocative - the life and death of an old peasant woman existing on the fringes of Soviet society; an incident between two soldiers in wartime. But in each, not so much from easy political resentment as from a profound accumulation of sorrow...