Word: polkes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...denim-clad and handcuffed together at the wrists. For Italy's Benetton, the ubiquitous purveyor of knitwear, the photo seemed ideal for its long- running ad campaign stressing harmony among the races. Ironically, the giant retailer now finds itself accused of racism. "Handcuffs do not convey brotherhood," says Donald Polk, president of the New York Urban League, which has been flooded with complaints about the ad from those who feel it depicts a black man under arrest. Says Vittorio Rava, Benetton's worldwide advertising head: "We thought of the campaign as anti-racist." Benetton's next series of ads will...
...great spectacles of the cold war, his speech one of the most memorable in his presidency. When Kennedy flew into Berlin that June morning, he had a text that did not please him. "You think this is any good?" he asked the U.S. Berlin commander, Major General James Polk, who had joined the Kennedy caravan.Polk scanned the speech and replied bluntly, "I think it is terrible." Kennedy agreed and began to write a new one. But before he taunted the builders of the Wall, he rode four hours through the streets of West Berlin in the midst of a human...
Meanwhile, part of a battalion of U.S. troops from Fort Ord, Calif., began arriving at Howard Air Force Base, near Panama City. They will be joined by other light-infantry units from Fort Polk, La., and Marine assault troops from Camp Lejeune, N.C. Also transported into Panama will be some 200 support vehicles, including armored personnel carriers and mortar carriers. At the same time, hundreds of military dependents in Panama evacuated their homes and moved to the safety of the ten U.S. military bases that bestride the 50-mile- long Panama Canal...
...This place is nice from what I've seen. I talked to some Panamanians last night, and I doubt if they'll have to use us," said Army Pfc. Michael Grant of the 5th Division from Fort Polk...
...these horse soldiers what he was doing on Dec. 7, 1941, and the answer is easy: it was Sunday, so he was playing polo. Polk had a two-goal rating, which is good. Spurrier, a star, had a five-goal rating when the Army, on Feb. 28, 1943, at last took his cavalry unit's horses away. The two watch indulgently as local enthusiasts play a polo match at Riley. "Gopher killing," says Polk, as a player whacks the ground with his mallet, missing the ball entirely. Spurrier, a horseman whose face shows ancestry that is part Osage Indian, gently...