Word: mented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nights of the Gun. From rock and bomb the rioters turned to guns. Snipers shot at police and firemen, wounding half a dozen. At the intersection of Lake and Wood Streets, 100 policemen armed with rifles traded shots with a dozen assailants in and around an apart ment project for an hour. Like guerrillas, most of the gunmen disappeared into the night after being surrounded...
...Bill Moyers whether businessmen might not get the impression that the President's Club was a vehicle for buying favor from the Administration. No more so, deadpanned Moyers, than the Rockefeller family's contributions to the G.O.P. were aimed at buying favor. Actually, explained the Justice Depart ment, the antitrust suit against Anheuser-Busch was a weak one and had been dropped "on the merits alone...
...headaches and his hospital expenses, Delair was awarded a total of $7,300 in damages from the car driver. And under a legal principle known as prejudice d'agrément, which gives a Frenchman the right to some recompense for being deprived of his favorite pleasure, the court threw in a symbolic gesture to take care of the farmer's lost taste for wine: an additional ten francs...
...Comtec and Ircom, jointly signed to build a 20-story skyscraper in Uganda's capital of Kampala. A group of three other Ro man companies, including a firm called Vianini, in which the Vatican is the largest shareholder, recently won a $40 million order from the Libyan govern ment to broaden 1,483 miles of coastal highway and erect 46 bridges...
Backless, Frontless. For some, it was tricky going. Emilio Pucci's sheer white halter top and harem pants arrived at Linda Hackett's Park Avenue apart ment with a written warning that she would have to do something about keeping her bosom in. "Band-Aids don't work," she later declared. But Linda, who designs clothes herself, engineered it all with a mysterious combination of "spirit gum and something else...