Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...side in the baroque alleyways of Prague. The Russians surrounded the presidential palace on Hradcany Hill, planted artillery on the heights of Letna Hill, where a mammoth statue of Stalin once overlooked the city. In Old Town Square, they even placed six antiaircraft guns by the Jan Hus monument, the symbol of Czechoslovakia's historic quest for liberty. Everywhere, paratroops in purple berets stood guard alongside tank crews in full battle dress, cradling automatic rifles in their laps. In swiftness of execution, the invasion had been a model military operation. But the occupation was soon to prove quite another matter...
...self-fulfilling because he controls so many successful stations. But the hits he creates, such as Sonny and Cher's I Got You, Babe and The Monkees' Last Train to Clarksville, can seldom be described as creative new works. A Los Angeles underground paper called Drake "a monument to public tastelessness." For better or worse, Drake is going to have more influence before he has less. Next month 21 new client FM stations will receive by mail, on reels pretaped by Drake's staff, their weekly programming. For the stations, it means getting by for much...
...visit put seal and confirmation on the reality of their triumph at Cierna in defense of their new freedoms. Until he arrived, many Czechoslovaks had found the sudden letup in Soviet pressure almost too good to be believed. Young Czechoslovaks milled around Prague's Jan Hus monument, puzzling over what had happened. The nagging suspicion lingered that their leaders had undertaken a secret sellout to the Soviets that only later would become apparent. Those fears were reinforced by the fact that Dubček and his colleagues purposefully played down the scope of their victory in order...
...impotent bat and the omnipotent pitch, the National League's Cincinnati Reds are a curious anachronism. Their mound staff is a monument to mediocrity, which is why they are a hopeless 15½ games behind the St. Louis Cardinals. But Red batsmen are rattling the fences from Crosley Field to Candlestick Park. The team batting average is .270, tops in either league by 18 points. Four of their hitters are among the league's top ten; a fifth, Third Baseman Tony Perez, is second only to San Francisco's Willie McCovey in RBls with...
...Pony Express. In cities throughout Oklahoma last week, a pair of young businessmen, Thomas Murray, 43, and Darrel Hinshaw, 31, were operating their own private postal system in direct competition with Uncle Sam-and making money at it too. No wonder. The U.S. Post Office these days is a monument to inefficiency, and week after week the catalogue of complaints grows fatter. Curious to learn what was in the badly battered package delivered by the postman, a Cleveland physician ripped off the wrapping and released a swarm of furious bees. Intended for a beekeeper in Columbus, Ga., the parcel...