Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Michael to Martin. Born Jan. 15, 1929, in a middle-class Georgia family active for two generations in the civil rights cause, he was the second child and first-born son, named after his father, Michael Luther King. The elder King, pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, changed both their names when Martin was five to honor the Reformation rebel who nailed his independent declaration to the Castle Church...
...failed to seize a number of primary objectives and to destroy mobile and defense units of the enemy. We also failed to motivate the people to stage uprisings. The enemy still resisted and his units were not dis rupted into pieces." The U.S. estimate of enemy combat deaths between Jan. 28 and Feb. 24 is 42,000. Hanoi did not mount a second wave of attacks, and probably would have been unable to do so if it wished. The Saigon government responded to the crisis with more vigor than many thought possible. Though General Vo Nguyen Giap may never have...
...result of mounting public pressure, the state prosecutor launched an investigation into the 1948 death of Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk. The official explanation of Masaryk's death was that he had committed suicide by jumping to the pavement from his third-floor bathroom window. Researchers in recent years have collected considerable evidence indicating that the Communists shoved Masaryk to his death. The liberals are determined to examine all available details of the case...
...been done by the master, another by one of his pupils. In the past six months, Chicago's Art Institute has taken a deep breath and concluded that one of its three Rembrandts, Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples, is in fact the work of Jan Lievens, a follower of Rembrandt...
...trading tapered off Thursday and Friday, but even so, the week's volume reached an alltime peak of 78,475,620 shares, topping a record of 65,948J60 shares set last Jan. 12. Despite a 6.71-point dip on Friday, the Dow-Jones industrials climbed 25.14 points during the week to 865.81. Investors bought heavily in automobiles, office equipment, savings and loans, electronics and glamour issues. Panicky speculators rushing to buy shares they had sold short in anticipation of falling prices accounted for some of the week's rush. More important, said brokers, mutual funds moved into...