Word: men
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guerrilla leader, mounted a daring diversion: backed by U.S. jets and Laotian T-28 fighter-bombers, they struck deep into Pathet Lao territory, capturing the Communist "capital" of Xieng Khouang, less than 50 miles from the North Vietnamese border. It was a short-lived victory. Vang Pao's men held on for less than a month before they were ousted from the bombed-out town. But their bold sally appeared to have bought enough time for Muong Soui: with the rains about to come, the garrison seemed safe for at least another year...
...seem tame compared with the types portrayed by Dustin Hoffman, Martin Balsam and Faye Dunaway. In Little Big Man, from Thomas Berger's picaresque novel, Dustin plays the hero, Jack Crabb, who survives every imaginable peril until the age of 121, which ought to put the makeup men on their mettle. The putty looms large in Balsam's role as well; he plays a sly con artist whose enraged victims relieve him at various times of a hand, an ear, an eye, a leg and his scalp. And Faye? No makeup required. In her role as a gospel...
...universal church, Suenens affirmed, but he is also the prisoner of a curial system that makes him more an emperor than a successor of Peter. Most contemporary church problems, the cardinal suggested, stem from the legalistic mentality of the cardinals and other functionaries who surround the Pope-men who refuse to recognize that bishops, priests and laity must also participate in the governing of the church...
...Bench blasted a two-run homer off the New York Yankees' Mel Stottlemyre, who was ultimately tagged with the loss. Washington's Frank Howard sent a towering drive over the centerfield fence in the American League's half of the inning. Then the Nationals sent nine men to the plate and scored five runs as San Francisco's Willie McCovey belted the first of two home runs. Even St. Louis Pitcher Steve Carlton, the game's eventual winner, lashed a run-producing double. Detroit's Bill Freehan came back with a homer, but that...
...Nelson Rockefeller is elevated to near sainthood before he is politically buried. Even Lyndon Johnson, sulking back on the ranch-the man who White points out was most responsible for Viet Nam, fragmented his party, nearly destroyed the nation's trust in its government-gets his requiem. "Few men have done more good in their time...