Word: lamplight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. James Andrew Hagerty, 85, longtime dean of U.S. political reporters who in 44 years on the old New York Herald and New York Times scored some of journalism's most notable beats (including one on the lamplight swearing-in of President Coolidge in Vermont), a ruggedly independent newsman who advised his son to steer clear of political press-agentry but came to take high pride in "Young Jim's" performance as Dwight Eisenhower's press secretary; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...yellow lamplight while the arks...
Lost Teeth. In sweltering Conakry, once a cheerful little city where the Africans ate out of doors by lamplight and danced into the night under the mango trees, the streets were deserted by 10 p.m. and the houses dark and locked. By day, the Capitol's 80,000 people went about their business nervously. The secret police, guided by Communist instructors imported from Czechoslovakia, were equipped with concealed Czech-made wire recorders, listening for the chance remark that would betray a "Gaullist enemy of the state...