Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Magic Pictures. For four long days, Hurricane Ella kept the planes on the ground. Finally, on Sunday, Oct. 14, Navy fighter pilots collected the clinching evidence. Flying as low as 200 ft., they made a series of passes over Cuba with their cameras whirring furiously. They returned with thousands of pictures-and the photographs showed that Cuba, almost overnight, had been transformed into a bristling missile base...
...magic, thick woods had been torn down, empty fields were clustered with concrete mixing plants, fuel tanks and mess halls. Chillingly clear to the expert eye were some 40 slim, 52-ft., medium-range missiles, many of them already angled up on their mobile launchers and pointed at the U.S. mainland. With an estimated range of 1,200 miles, these missiles, armed with one-megaton warheads, could reach Houston. St. Louis -or Washington. The bases were located at about ten spots, including Sagua la Grande and Remedios on the northern coast, and San Cristobal and Guanajay on the western...
...Uhuru!" (Freedom) bellowed the burly, bearded African in red shirt and beaded cap. "Uhuru na ushindi!" (Freedom and victory) roared back the weaving, excited mob of 20,000 arrayed before him in Nairobi's stadium. Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta had lost none of his magic appeal with the crowds in the decade since he was jailed for leading the bloody Mau Mau rebellion. He also still had plenty of his political acumen, for Burning Spear quickly converted the happy celebration of the tenth anniversary of his arrest into a political rally to further the course of his KANU party...
...Black Magic. Since he was made principal conductor of the Philharmonia for life in 1959, Klemperer has mellowed considerably, rarely giving in to the manic moods and deep depressions of his earlier career (he had been known to grab a violin from a player's hand and smash it over the fiddler's head). When not conducting, he lives in a Zurich apartment, attended by his daughter Lotte, never grants interviews and goes out only for occasional walks. His recent recordings have been so good that they have furnished him with what amounts to a new career. Although...
...blacker in the eyes of his detractors. He is constantly slurred as a negative force, a shadow which cannot be hit. Actually, the meteoric rise of Ted Kennedy is a positive force attributable to personal dynamism, political genius, effective organization and popular policies. He is certainly helped by a magic name and an opposition which has proved unable to exploit his weaknesses...