Word: jans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prove a point in the most graph ic way, Czech-born Engineer Jan...
...vicinity of Levelland, Texas, on the night of Nov. 2, 1957, when glowing elliptical objects 200 ft. long hovered over highways, terrifying several motorists and causing their cars' ignition and lights to fail. A third apparently inexplicable case occurred off Trindade Isle, Brazil, during daylight on Jan. 16, 1958, when scientific personnel aboard a Brazilian navy ship spotted a Saturn-shaped UFO and photographed it four times...
Specifically, the bill created a five-man panel to mediate the dispute and, if no agreement emerged in 90 days, to impose a settlement that would be binding until Jan. 1, 1969. In naming the panel, the President surprised everybody by including A.F.L.-C.l.O. President George Meany. It came as a still greater surprise when Johnson named as chairman Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse. For one thing, he is one of L. B. J.'s peskiest Viet Nam war critics. Moreover, although Morse is an old hand at labor mediation, he won the implacable enmity...
There are now 465,000 U.S. service men there, and another 25,000 have long since been tagged to go. With allowances for anticipated casualties, that would have given Westmoreland a total force of 480,000 troops by Jan. 1 . Now the timetable has been accelerated. The 480,000 mark will be reached by mid-October, 2½ months ahead of schedule...
None of this amounts to open revolt. Czech writers, whatever their new independence, are powerless to save from an almost certain prison sentence their colleague Jan Beneš, who was on trial last week in Prague for smuggling his manuscripts abroad. Yet the rising tide of protest seems to be achieving a degree of success. There is speculation that Soviet censors may soon release for publication Solzhenitsyn's The Cancer Ward, a novel about Stalin's secret police that has been smothered in recent years for ideological reasons. Some prominent Russian writers are even predicting that the regime...