Word: ladened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...switchblade in a teen-age rumble, the patient prayers of the hardworking faithful, the clink of pennies in a revivalist's plate. Harlem has mothered a strange and varied brood: Bojangles Robinson, tap-dancing down Broadway; Sugar Ray Robinson in a fuchsia Cadillac; Josephine Baker in a banana-laden G-string; pro-Communist Vito Marcantonio, haranguing a street-corner crowd; Father Divine in his special heavens, and-most recently-Adam Clayton Powell Jr., pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church...
Leaving Out Gimmicks. Not all builders agree that tight money and the weather are wholly to blame for the industry's ills. Some fear that the housing industry is pricing itself out of the market with elaborate, cost-laden homes that many potential home buyers cannot afford. Says Milton J. Brock Jr., former president of the Southern California Home Builders Association, who has cut prices on his homes by leaving out many built-in gimmicks that the buyer can later install himself: "The main thing is to put the buyer in a house. Every time we try to build...
...week following the explosion of the arms-laden freighter La Coubre in Havana Harbor, the vilification of the U.S. broke all bounds of diplomacy-and even of sanity. Yet once again, in a rapidly deteriorating situation that sees Cuban-American relations reach a new low each day, the U.S. held its temper...
...Canaveral last week the U.S. attempted to launch its first reconnaissance satellite designed to take advantage of this fact. Called Midas (from Missile Defense Alarm System), the satellite carried infrared detectors, which will pick up a missile's hot exhaust trail as it rises above the hazy, moisture-laden lower atmosphere. From a satellite on a high orbit, the heat can be detected several thousand miles away...
...captain, Quesada had been on assignment as adviser to the Argentine Air Force for close to three years when he was ordered back to the States in late 1940. On his own, he took off in an old Grumman amphibian that the U.S. Navy wanted returned to the country. Laden with five 5-gal.gas cans, a pair of pliers, a tire casing and some safety wire, Quesada chugged along having himself a fine time. He fished in the lake region of Argentina, threaded through the Andes ("with the Christ of the Andes above my head"). One day he set the plane...