Word: piped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Westchester Apartments. Although he never drinks coffee-a ban imposed by his mother, who thought it would stunt his growth-he daily brews up a pot for his wife before driving to work in a 1955 Thunderbird with such superfluous gimmicks as a thermometer that measures tail-pipe temperature, a special radio for airline weather forecasts...
...Wants to Sleep (Film Polski; Edward Harrison) begins in a dark alley; a man is clubbed to the pavement and his briefcase stolen. So far, so bloody; then the thief walks a few steps down the alley, a gas pipe thuds musically on a skull, and the mugger himself lies mugged. The new thief happily examines the briefcase-until a knife glints in the uncertain light. He gives the loot to the latest blackguard, when suddenly...
Divided Minds. The court, after deliberating 75 minutes, found Defendants Challe and Zeller guilty. Each was sentenced to only 15 years imprisonment, instead of death before a firing squad. General Challe heard the verdict unmoved and departed for Sante prison, reflectively smoking his pipe. Both troubled and relieved by the lenient sentences, Paris' thoughtful Le Monde felt that greater severity might have provoked "the indignation of the majority of the French. Why? Because today minds are divided, institutions uncertain, and civil sense in disarray...
...Rivera is the kind of man who can repair a tractor, shoe a horse or fit a pipe, and he did all those things as a youth on his family's Louisiana sugar plantation, where his Spanish-descended father was an engineer in the mill. But the last thing he wanted to do was to spend the rest of his life on a plantation. He went to Chicago, where he happened to pay a visit to the Art Institute and to what is now the Museum of Natural History. There he was so beguiled by a collection of Egyptian...
...which had trailed several miles behind the lead bus coming into Anniston. In Anniston, eight whites climbed aboard, began roughing up the Freedom Riders before cops broke up the brawl. At Birmingham's Trailways Terminal, another mob charged the bus, swinging fists, blackjacks and lengths of pipe. Although the terminal is just two blocks from Birmingham's police headquarters, the cops were conspicuously absent when the blood began to flow. Said tough, bullfrog-voiced Police Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor later: "Our people of Birmingham are a peaceful people, and we never have any trouble here unless some people...