Word: mined
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fire trucks, police and medics raced to the scene to begin the bloody job of evacuating the wounded and digging through the debris for the dead. In the process they discovered a Claymore mine, which sprays steel balls in a deadly triangle when,it goes off. It is a favorite Viet Cong trick to set off Claymores minutes after an initial act of terrorism, with the idea of wiping out the rescuers as well. Miraculously this Claymore fizzled, or the toll would have been far worse. It was bad enough: eight dead, including one American, one New Zealander...
...Viet Cong's campaign of sabotage and terrorism continues. For the last tabulated one-week period, in fact, Viet Cong incidents have soared to a new high of 1,038. They range from propaganda marches in provincial capitals, protesting U.S. air strikes, to last week's mining of the Danish freighter S.S. Kina, en route via canal from the sea to Saigon. The submerged mine blew a gaping hole in the Kina, but failed to sink her; if it had, much of the heavy cargo coming into Saigon would have been held up until the canal was cleared...
Jesus, sensing Judas' cupidity, chose him as the instrument of betrayal in order to fulfill the prophecy of Psalms: "Mine own familiar friend in whom I trusted . . . hath lifted up his heel against me." Jesus' "stratagem," says Schonfield, was "designed to pile on the pressure at the crucial moment and induce the traitor to act." When Mary washed his feet with precious ointment, Jesus let "fall the words about his body being anointed for burial." Like "an inspiration it came to" Judas "that money was to be made by doing what Jesus plainly wanted. The tempter came...
Died. Lansdell K. Christie, 61, founder and president of Liberia Mining Co., the West African country's first modern iron-ore mine (3,000,000 tons in 1964), who discovered Liberia's mineral potential during World War II while serving as an officer in the U.S. Army Engineers, in 1946 began developing the deposits with early financing from Republic Steel, making himself such a fortune that in 1960 he was able to help bankroll Liberia's big Mano River iron-ore project with an interest-free loan of $1,700,000; after a short illness; in Syosset...
Died. Alexander King, 66, pungent author and TV wit, an editorial associate of LIFE whose career collapsed in 1945 when he sank into done addiction, but rebounded to new heights in 1959 with explosive appearances on the Tonight show to plug his bestselling memoirs (Mine Enemy Grows Older), giving voice to his acid appraisals of modern art ("a putrescent coma"), advertising ("an overripe fungus") and people in general ("adenoidal baboons"); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...