Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Prime Minister Nehru broke with the conservatives in 1951, Shastri abandoned one preceptor, Tandon, to join the other, Pandit Pant, in supporting Nehru. From that moment Lal Bahadur Shastri never left Nehru's side, and the grateful Prime Minister repaid the loyalty with a succession of Cabinet jobs...
...Bukavu, got advice over the phone from three Belgian colonels and his former commanding officer, now Belgian Ambassador to Burundi. Premier Adoula swallowed his pride and asked the U.N. for help. In flew a U.S. Air Force C-130 with armored cars and reinforcements. For the moment, the pygmoid threat to Bukavu seemed to have diminished. But the Congolese soldiers were taking no chances against mai Mulele: their witch doctors told them to wrap grass around their gun barrels in order to counter the magic water of the Bafulero...
...test consisted of driving a big car head on into a stationary small car, and vice versa. Photographs taken at the moment of collision were enough to alarm any small-car owner - and did when they were reproduced in news papers across the country. Dauphines, Volkswagens and Saabs were devastated, while the bigger Buicks, Fords and Pontiacs came out of the wrecks relatively unscathed. Connecticut State Police Commissioner Leo J. Mulcahy, who planned the project, pronounced the tests conclusive and declared: "We want to create buyer resistance to small cars and to arouse . . . public awareness of the dangers of riding...
Alloway gave his highest praise to Parrish: "Behind a screen of high technique, Parrish is master of the cliche, of the image of the moment." But perhaps even more could be said in his favor...
...cortege reaches Broadway and vanishes into the dark. Shrieks long since shrieked hover in the air like radioactivity, echo along the empty trail. The moment is gone, the brief encounter between man and myth is nothing but memory. Manhattan's greatest spectacle is over. But only for the night. With Hamlet held over until August and nine weeks still to go, his lady is sure to keep the show off the road and onto the street...