Word: l
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RANYA L. ALEXANDER Davis, Calif...
...ROBERT L. TEAL Berkeley, Calif...
...last entry is dated Oct. 7, the day before he was captured in a ravine in the Quebrada del Yuro, a bullet in his left thigh and his M-l semi-automatic carbine shot out of his hands. "The 17 of us left [a canyon] under a waning moon, the march was very tiresome and we left many traces in the canyon where we were," he wrote. "At two we stopped to rest, since it was useless to continue advancing." The sad crusade was near...
...benefit of being really rich is that we can do little things in a big way like the Detroit race-track owner who gave sports cars as favors to a dozen dinner guests. We all have our pet charities, and some of us even have crusades for example, H. L. Hunt, the Texas oil billionaire, spends millions on propaganda against assorted people whom he regards as Red subversives. Then in Britain, there's Sir Cyril Black, the rich Tory MP, who is dedicated to protecting the "moral" working class from dirty books. As he sees it, "the intelligentsia...
...punchy. The only way to sell certain analgesics was to make the viewer queasy just watching: faucets dripped acids into the stomach, hammers clanged on anvils in the head. It was getting increasingly difficult to tell whether the little old winemaker was getting tanked on Drano, or pushing Ken-L Ration for hungry Living Bras. Gradually, after 20 years of hard-sell harangue, viewers developed a kind of filter blend up front. They did not turn off their sets; they turned off their minds. Admen refer to that phenomenon as the "fatigue factor," but their research departments know...