Word: n
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...week's end. So artful was the camouflage that only a single French newsman remained behind, lounging in the press department of Pompidou's Elysée Palace and flicking through the President's itinerary for a visit to Corsica. Then a stream of Citroën limousines began to disgorge Cabinet ministers for a hastily called meeting late Friday afternoon...
That afternoon Viet Cong bomb squads struck again. In Saigon they drove a shabby bomb-laden Citroën up to a U.S. language school for Vietnamese servicemen. As they fled the auto, the guerrillas gunned down three Vietnamese sentries. Then the car exploded, killing another nine Vietnamese and injuring 67 persons, including 28 U.S. Air Force...
...named for Napoleon is opened with a corkscrew bearing the head of Bonaparte. Napoleon comes in dolls, lampshades, vases, bumper stickers, two-foot-square postcards, cuff links and assorted junk. A cheese manufacturer is distributing 10 million color pictures of Grande Armée heroes. Paris hairdressers decreed the N line: a lock dangling over the forehead. For three dollars, one may acquire a replica of the Emperor's will on pseudo parchment with an imitation red seal. Says an official of the Bonapartist political party that has ruled Ajaccio for over a century: "When we Corsicans...
ROCK 'N' ROLL...
...Colonel could be right. Radio stations around the country are trying "rockumentary" programs of "oldie but goodie" rock 'n' roll sounds of the '50s. These draw a surprising response from teen-agers as well as the late-twenties and over-thirties at whom they were originally angled...