Word: marching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THIRTY years later, the blurb in the Pine Bluff, Ark., high school yearbook under the picture of the pretty blonde remains apt. Letting go after the march on Washington, Martha Mitchell told a television interviewer: "As my husband has said many times, some of the liberals in this country, he'd like to take them and change them for Russian Communists." Since Martha Mitchell's husband is the Attorney General of the U.S., the remark caused a certain furor. John Mitchell, at a press conference, set the record straight: "If you will transpose the word 'liberal...
...Protest: "Any time you get somebody marching in the streets, it's catering to revolution. It started with the colored people in the South. Now other groups are taking to the streets. We could have worked out the integration battle without allowing them to march. My family worked for everything we had. We even have a deed from the King of England for property in South Carolina. Now these jerks come along and try to give it to the Communists...
...wise and practical decision. Prodded by growing congressional concern and press criticism of CB activities, Nixon launched a review of the program last March. The investigation showed that the Army had developed stocks of deadly diseases such as psittacosis (parrot fever) which could be sprayed over large areas to infect food and water. People in the psittacosis target site would develop acute pulmonary infection, chills, fever; some would become delirious, and ten percent might die. Other diseases, which the Army was prepared to massproduce, were equally lethal, including anthrax, Q-fever and tularemia (rabbit fever...
...mainly to the impending cut of 375 staff positions for reasons of economy, not ideology. Two weeks ago, USIA rushed out a propaganda film called The Silent Majority. Those who had not seen it automatically assumed from the title that it was a partisan rebuttal to the antiwar march on Washington, and there were cries of foul. In fact, the film gives generally fair treatment to both sides...
...Apollo 12's astronauts bedded down in the LRL for the remainder of their 21-day quarantine, NASA was making plans for its next lunar expedition. Buoyed by the bull's-eye at Surveyor Crater, the space agency tentatively scheduled the launch of Apollo 13 for March 12 and picked the most difficult site to date for man's next lunar landing: the ancient highlands near the mountain-ringed crater Fra Mauro...