Word: laureled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bodyguard of the Liberal mayoral candidate were killed in a shoot-out with bodyguards of the incumbent Nacionalista Party mayor. In downtown Manila, an assassin killed a candidate for governor of one of the outlying provinces. In a nightclub near Manila, a gunman severely wounded Jose B. Laurel Jr., son of the wartime puppet President and now Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives, pumping two .45-cal. slugs into him before being chased away by Laurel's own bodyguard. The threat of violence has become so serious that President Ferdinand Marcos has sent detachments of the federal Constabulary...
...bleeding her husband of self-respect. She refuses to let him forget that he never rose to the rank of major, that his only accomplishment is an obsolete manual on small arms. Edgar bullies Alice right back, and stamps his army boot on her vanity by noting that the laurel wreaths she cherishes from her days as an actress were given to her, not by an adoring public, but by her own brother...
...generated these protests. Sigmund Abeles, Art Leon Apt, History Duncan Aswell, Eng. Grazia Avitabile, Ital. Mariam Berlin, His. Sharon Cadman, Eng. Elizabeth Conant, Bio. Ann Congleton, Phil. Helen Corsa, Eng. John Crawford, Music Ward Cromer, Psych. Fred Denbeaux, Bib. His. Jacqueline Evans, Math. David Ferry, Eng. John Graham, Math Laurel Furumoto, Psy. Rene Galand, French Edward Gulick, His. Jean Harrison, Bio. Walter Houghton, Eng. Gabriele Jackson, Eng. Owen Jander, Music Florence McCulloch, French Eleanor McLaughlin, His. Jeanette McPherrin, French Joan Melvin, Bio. Genworth Mofett, Art Torsten Norvig, Math Barry Phillips, Eng. David Pritzker, Math Ruth Anna Putnam, Phil. Jerome Regnier...
Still the city fought for its life. Writing off fashionable Laurel Park's $50,000 homes because the area is lower than the arroyo lip, Harlingen took its stand in the central district, sandbagging dikes across streets wherever crews could find relatively high ground. Bulldozers gouged a 10-ft.-high earth embankment across one stretch, sacrificing the airport to save the city's core. Water mains burst and sewers backed up, spurting like geysers, as exhausted workers clung to the defense perimeter. Armed guards battled diamondback rattlesnakes as plentiful as worms after rain. Bushes turned black with water...
...Erie, Pa., broke up a sidewalk crap game among Negro youths-and the result was two days of stonings and stickwork. Officials in Cincinnati, Tampa and Buffalo, where ghetto dwellers rampaged earlier this summer, nervously sought ways to avert fresh flare-ups. Racial disturbances also occurred in Plainfield, N.J., Laurel, Md., Kansas City, Mo., and Miami...