Word: knotted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Winston Churchill - The Valiant Years (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Tying the Knot; the final campaign in Germany. Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery offers his recollections...
...Khrushchev thinks more like Richelieu and Metternich than like Woodrow Wilson," Walter Lippmann writes after his Moscow visit. Certainly the Russian Premier is handling the current Russian-British exchanges on Laos with coolness and detached calculation. Indeed, the deliberation with which both sides in the neotiations are unravelling each knot in the Laotian crisis almost justifies the British government's faith that a settlement is immanent. The importance of a cease-fire, the return of the international commission to Laos, and a 14-power conference to settle the future of that faction-torn land--all are, in vaguest outline, agreed...
Living Book. Naturally, Ionides is a living book of knowledge on the ways of the snake. A spitting cobra spits in one's eye. Ionides was temporarily blinded and in pain for two days. Love among the serpents is pretty snaky. Rival males get all intertwined in a knot. "Nobody knows how the winner wins, or why," but the suitors are good sports-they never bite each other. The snake with the deadliest bite is the Gaboon viper, a hideous flat-headed creature whose two-inch fangs can bring agonizing death in three seconds...
When every other skipper thought the 30-knot Chesapeake Bay Wind to much for spinnakers, Crimson helmsman John Marshall called for his parachute and, despite near disaster, skippered the varsity and a 40-ft. yawl to a stries tie for first with Navy in one of the most amazing last legs in the history of the McMillan Cup regatta...
...heavens, we're shaking to pieces here." The plane was racked by vibrations, the most violent he had ever felt. "I and the airplane window were going in opposite directions." Then, as mysteriously as they had started, the vibrations stopped, and Joe Walker headed down to a 180-knot landing in the tan clay of Rogers Dry Lake. Came a voice over the radio: "Wonderful show, Joe." And another: "Whoopee!" Said Walker, as he climbed out the cockpit: "You feel like you're beginning to get out there where someday you'll see both sides of this...