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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White, a Goldwater lieutenant, picked up a microphone and barked: "All call! All call!" The message went over the lines to 30 phones on the convention floor. "If there is any booing in your delegations, stop it immediately," ordered White. Within three minutes Goldwater's legions pinpointed the main source of the catcalls in the galleries, scurried up the steps and asked offenders to give Rocky a break. They never really...
Turkey, which is entitled to keep a regiment of 650 soldiers in Cyprus, has also pumped in fresh forces from the mainland. But the Turkish Cypriots, lacking the control of the main ports that Makarios' men enjoy, have had to adopt unorthodox import techniques that make it impossible to bring in as many reinforcements as the Greeks. One battalion of perhaps 200 paratroopers was recently dropped clandestinely along the 15-mile-long road from Nicosia to coastal Kyrenia, where the legal Turkish regiment keeps watch over the only outlet from the capital the Turkish Cypriots control. Along with...
...lire and gold coins and fled for the hills. From then on, Kocero virtually ruled what few roads there were in the southeast. In a single day, he and his band of five or six men looted 200 people by halting one bus after another on a main highway, made off with nearly $20,000. As a sideline, he got fat fees for guiding smugglers of opium, cattle, coffee, silks and jewelry across the Turkish-Syrian border...
...book, which sells for $1.50, is divided into three main sections. One decribes education opportunities in the community, one discusses volunteer work, and one employment opportunities. Throughout the book are comments from women, many participants in seminars conducted by the Radcliffe Institute, who have taken on another full or part-time activity...
...play's main literary device is repetition. The awkwardness and naivete with which it is employed becomes embarrassing quite early in the evening. One word is sequentially used as thre different parts of speech in a striving for poetic utterance that displays the banality of the mind which wrote it: "We were joyful. We followed Him joyfully in order to live...