Word: platooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week there were strong signs that Prince Juan Carlos was right, and the smart money was wrong. With a platoon of army generals and government ministers. Franco traveled 100 miles from Madrid to meet Pretender Don Juan at a hilltop castle in western Spain. It was their first meeting since 1954. Out of the eight-hour talk came a cautiously worded communique that all but named Don Juan as Franco's choice to take over when he is gone...
...Beirut (pop. 500,000), capital of Lebanon, newspapers flock thick as thieves. Beirut's press platoon of more than 40 papers ekes out a precarious and intensely seasonal life. The largest of the papers has fewer than 20,000 subscribers. Between elections, all but a few shrink to two-page flyers, printed twice a week in obedience to a law that revokes the franchise of any newspaper less regular. But come election time, Beirut's papers turn daily and take on weight. Last week, on the eve of Lebanese national elections, Al Beiraq (The Banner), one of Beirut...
...Leader Dirksen, who was carrying the burden of the Administration's fight with backstage help from Vice President Nixon, nor Lyndon Johnson, as he sought some moderating compromise, had a solid enough agreement from combined civil rights advocates to guarantee safe passage of a bill. Johnson kept a platoon of lawyers and staff assistants drafting and redrafting secret proposals. But mostly he waited, trusting to his uncanny instinct about the Senate to signal the right time to produce a proposal that had a chance to satisfy Northern liberals, moderate Democrats and Republicans, give him the 67 (two-thirds plus...
When Billy himself spoke in copper-mining Kitwe, police ringed the area with riot cars and motorcycles, and a steel-helmeted platoon with tear gas and fixed bayonets stood by while 15,000 gathered to hear the Graham gospel. A crowd of young nationalists yelling "Freedom!" stoned cars on their way to the rally, and during Billy's talk the police were ready to take over his powerful public-address system at the flick of a switch. But all stayed quiet, and 1,400 made "decisions for Christ...
...NCAA Committee, meeting in Miami Beach, Fla., will vote today on the American Football Coaches Association request to return to unlimited substitutions and the platoon system, voted out of existence seven years...