Word: martialled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Radio Damascus plays martial music, interspersed with ringing slogans, Syrian businessmen begin to wince. It usually means a coup d'état or a government crackdown...
...martial music began one night at 11:30 and the first slogan was: "1965 shall witness fundamental developments in strengthening the foundations of the regime!" That seemed to rule out a coup. At 1:30 a.m. the radio came clean: the announcer read off four new decrees that will take Syria's wobbly Baath (Renaissance) socialist government far down the Marxist road and virtually wipe out private ownership of Syria's major industries...
Married. Janet Gaynor, 56, winner of Hollywood's first Oscar in 1928 for her performances in Seventh Heaven, Sunrise and Street Angel; and Paul Gregory, 44, producer (The Caine Mutiny, Court-Martial, Night of the Hunter); she for the second time, he for the first; in Las Vegas...
...which in Siamese means soft, round and lovely. That at least was the decision in Bangkok last week where Pook was proclaimed Miss Thailand of 1964. Drums rolled, bugles blared, balloons soared madly into a velvet sky, and the commanding general of Thailand's First Army announced in martial tones the winner of the coveted gold cup. But the exuberant Bangkok crowds were cheering much more than a one time drum majorette who packs 116 Ibs. into a 35-22-35 frame, punctuated by a pair of eyes that outglimmer the Emerald Buddha. For Pook's crowning marked...
...Martial Law. Premier Huong was proving tougher than expected, at least for the moment. He pronounced some of the arrested rioters draft dodgers and inducted them into the army, slapped the capital under martial law and named burly General Pham Van Dong ("the Tiger of the Delta") military governor of Saigon. Dong threw two battalions of troops around the Buddhist Center. Taking to,,, radio, Huong blamed the disorders on "irresponsible people who have either innocently or deliberately fallen in with the Communist plan...