Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been a lilting summer day throughout Eastern Europe. In the cool of a starry evening in the Czechoslovak capital of Prague, vast Wenceslas Square was alive with couples strolling arm in arm, tourists and Czechoslovaks bustling homeward. Then, just before midnight, telephones began to jangle as friends and relatives living in border towns frantically put in calls to the capital. The alert was spread by taxi drivers and owners of private cars, who raced through the medieval streets with their horns wailing warning. Soon the roar of jet engines reverberated through the night skies; Russian planes were flying ominously...
They are also planning a strong assault on the platform committee in order to get an unequivocal antiwar plank calling for an end to the bombing of North Viet Nam and a repudiation of past U.S. war policy. The committee will conduct morning-to-midnight hearings for six days this week in an effort to write the party doctrine...
...first-ballot victory, Humphrey toured the Midwest and Northeast over the weekend to meet with party leaders and shore up his delegate strength. He delivered mild gibes at McCarthy, but concentrated most of his attacks on Nixon and the Republican nominee's Southern supporters. "Nixon called on the midnight of the South," said Humphrey. "I call on its dawn and high noon." On the same theme, Humphrey hopes to popularize the slogan "Clear it with Strom," suggesting that South Carolina's Strom Thurmond has veto power over Nixon's decisions. Meanwhile, Humphreyphobes on the West Coast have...
...undisciplined it's a miracle I ever get anything done. I'm a slow writer. I hate deadlines. All my writing is done at night, usually after midnight. I take copious notes, even though I remember everything. During an interview I'm writing all the time-just write, write, write-everything. I've only used a tape recorder once. That was on the Peter Fonda piece. I felt I just had to-Peter has his own vocabulary, his own way of saying things. Unfortunately, all of the really great people to interview are dead-Hitler, that...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9 p.m. to midnight). Cecil B. DeMille's Academy Award-winning The Greatest Show on Earth (1953), with Charlton Heston, James Stewart, Betty Mutton, Cornel Wilde, Dorothy Lamour, and a three-ring supporting cast of circus performers...