Word: mer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COLTRANE'S SOUND (Atlantic) is free, air borne and intense; his tenor sax describes a flashing, looping melodic maze in his composition called Liberia, pokes broodingly into small, dark corners in Equinox, has the jitters in Satellite. The fine drum mer Elvin Jones explodes some free-style fireworks...
...post or a foreign service assignment, for example. Bobby replied that he did not want any of them. The President said: "I think I know what you want. You want to lead the country some day." Where upon Lyndon gave the Attorney General a fatherly little talk about the mer its of running for elective office, promised to give him all the help he could if Bobby decided to enter a race. That was all very well, but the trouble was that Kennedy did not want to talk of the presidency when he had just been dealt...
...East German brothers, aged 19 and 21, crept silently into a grain field at the East-West border one recent sum mer afternoon and flattened themselves amidst the billowing green stalks. Looming above them were two 30-ft.-high wooden guard towers manned by grim East German Grepos toting machine pistols, and between the towers stretched three rows of ugly barbed wire...
...President Eisenhower sat in an American military cemetery at St.-Laurent-sur-Mer and, with thousands of white crosses forming a background for his words, talked about his own son, who had graduated from West Point on June 6, 1944, who had not died in the war, and who had given him grandchildren to brighten his life. There was no sentimentality in what he said, merely strong feeling for the dead who had gone to France, as he put it, to gain nothing for themselves...
...core of the pilot project this sum-the teen-ager an edge in finding a job," mer will be a set of skill courses to "give Clifton said. Courses in small appliance repair, office machines and practices, lawn and child care, and consumer selling will be included in the curriculum. TEST will also set up a labor pool to serve as an "embryonic" employment agency, Clifton said...