Word: pined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McComb, Miss., a town of 12,400 people set in the harsh, pine-dotted country in the southwestern corner of the state, quaintly refers to itself as "the Camellia City of America." In recent years McComb has justly earned a reputation as the toughest anti-civil rights community in the toughest anti-civil rights area in the toughest anti-civil rights state in the Union...
...crowd for their execution, Duvalier ordered all businesses closed and schools let out; backlands peasants were trucked into Port-au-Prince. As TV cameras recorded the scene, a black and white Jeep pulled up to the cemetery, and out stepped the two victims. They were tied tightly to two pine stakes. "Traditional proceedings were scrupulously respected," announced Le Matin, a government newspaper. "There were three volleys of Springfields, and submachine guns, and three coups de grace." After which, the crowd was marched to the National Palace, where Duvalier, acceding to its "solicitations," appeared on the balcony "to smile and wave...
...yellow cliff, a Spanish admiral looked down at the smooth flow of men and machines and termed it "an incredibly complex, perfectly organized and flawless operation." It was not entirely flawless. Marine Lieut. Colonel James B. Ord, at an inland command post, noted a column of smoke twisting over pine trees on the horizon. Grumbled Ord: "Some damn fool started a forest fire. I hope they get it out quickly." Then his walkie-talkie man reported: "Two helicopters have collided and crashed." The H-34 choppers, carrying 22 men, had smashed together some 600 ft. above ground. One burst into...
...ferocious raider of Ivy League faculties. Yale's bright, articulate Bayless Manning, 41, rolled into Palo Alto last summer completely equipped with wife, four children, a black Porsche sports car, a worn set of Shakespeare, an Egyptian statue, a dagger that had been used in a Philip pine murder and a rapidly expanding reputation as one of the busiest young legal scholars in the business. Manning's former boss, Yale Law Dean Eugene V. Rostow, had already given warning of the prodigy he was sending west: "Manning is one of the shiniest fish ever to come...
Last week the British Medical Jour nal finally noted some encouraging news for cold-sore sufferers; in Paris, a team of Pasteur Institute virologists, led by Dr. Pierre Lépine, has developed a vaccine that shows definite promise. They grew herpes simplex virus in cultures of kidney cells taken from sheep embryos; then the live virus was inactivated by exposure to ultraviolet light. As part of the testing program, the vaccine was injected into 20 patients who suffered from recurrent cold sores. After one year, eleven of the patients have had no recurrence of their herpes simplex eruptions, seven...