Word: pikes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pages. McGraw-Hill. $27.50. ARMS AND ARMOR by Vesey Norman. 128 pages. Putnam. $4.95. Who has not, at least in childhood, been fascinated by the medieval knight, his squire and yeoman, and the strange tools they used in war? Cuirass and helmet, shield and sword. Chain mail, longbow, harquebus, pike-and the thin-bladed misericord that could slip between the plates to pluck a man's life from his ribs. The battle-dented, brutally functional field armor of the 14th century; the intricately inlaid and painted parade armor of the 16th. Both of these accounts of arms and armor...
Trying to Be Fair. In a federal district court in Biloxi, civil rights lawyers requested that Pike County (of which McComb is the principal town) Sheriff R. R. Warren, McComb Police Chief George Guy, Mississippi State Public Safety Director T. B. Birdsong and three McComb patrolmen be enjoined from interfering with Negroes' civil rights. In their brief, they cited instance after instance in which rights workers were arrested and imprisoned on questionable charges. Last month, they said, local cops arrested 13 workers for operating a food-handling establishment without a permit-when all they were doing was cooking their...
...calm waters off Spain's Mazagón beach, its lights flashing in the early dawn. On that cue, 84 U.S. Navy ships, ten U.S. merchant ships and 14 small Spanish vessels began churning about in the largest military landing operation since World War II. This was Steel Pike I-the Navy's attempt to prove that old-fashioned assault by sea still holds some advantages over the modern trend toward movement...
...Hawk antiaircraft missiles and some 1,400-m.p.h. F-104 jet fighters to Franco. All of this is at the displeasure of NATO allies of the U.S., who do not want Franco's Spain in NATO, and who last week canceled their plans to send observers to Steel Pike...
...hearing on the food-handling charge will be held in McComb today; an NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund representative in McComb said the cage would probably be bound over to a Pike County court for trial later...