Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began to speak of the Russian invaders as "the visiting fraternal forces." Overt opposition all but ended, and most Czechoslovaks did their best to tolerate their unwanted visitors. While they still felt great animosity to ward their occupiers, they nonetheless recognized that since they had not resisted at the moment of the invasion, it was useless to provoke repressive measures by acts of defiance now. As a result, the country began to assume at least a veneer of normality. TIME Correspondent Peter Forbath took the measure of the new Czechoslovak mood throughout the country last week, and filed this report...
...other way by his better instincts; the Klan wins. Huie also hopes that movies will be made of some of his civil rights books. "One of the great tragedies is that we've never had realistic films about race hatred in the U.S.," he says. At the moment, a small studio is making preparations to film Huie's book about the Neshoba murders, Three Lives for Mississippi. Before the film could be made, however, Huie once again had to go through the distasteful experience of shelling out money to scruffy Klansmen, who then signed releases for portrayal rights...
...this was rather tolerantly interpreted as a harmless aberration of the hippie culture. At any rate, the music was not so terrible and, besides, the hippies were rather charming. It tickled the townsfolk to hear the kids say that the Sun Dance had been the festival's moment of truth, that without it the proceedings would have been a failure...
...four bands, instead of the Schlumbergers' two. The moon was bright, the night clear and cool, as Patiño had hoped. And all the same people were there, the ladies in different gowns, to embrace and exclaim. No one could bear to miss a moment. As Iran's ex-Queen Soraya explained: "I'm very pained over what happened in Iran. But an earthquake can happen anywhere. That's no reason for me not to go to a ball...
Ending a New England vacation, Dr. Jesse James Pone Jr. was driving home to Westbury, Long Island, when he heard a radio report of a double shooting in New Cassel, only a couple of miles from Westbury. At that very moment, said the radio, the man with the gun was barricaded in a basement laundry room, where police had been besieging him for hours. They dared not use force, because the man was threatening to kill the two-year-old girl whom he was holding as hostage. What really gripped Pone's attention was the gunman's name...