Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Cong waited until a thick layer of rain cloud covered the mountain crests around Kannack. Insured against U.S. jet attacks, they struck, nearly 1,000 strong, at the camp's north, south and east flanks. Dozens of assault squads in black shorts and green kerchiefs of parachute silk slipped up to the barbed-wire perimeter carrying Bangalore torpedoes. There followed bangs galore...
...Methodist Church in Marion, where King offered the dubious consolation: "There is an amazing democracy about death." Cried King: "Farewell, Jimmie! You died that all of us could vote, and we are going to vote." King also pushed his Selma registration drive through its seventh grinding week. In pouring rain, he led 350 Negroes to the courthouse, where Sheriff Jim Clark was, as usual, standing resolutely...
King appealed to Clark "in the name of humanity" to let the applicants enter and get out of the rain. Said Clark: "There isn't room. It would interfere with orderly procedures. In the name of common sense, they will have to stay out." Though the sheriff did read off the numbers of Negro applicants whose turns before the voting registrars had come up, he turned back many, alleging that they had appeared too late. But others got through, and at day's end a record 200 applications had been received...
...mining concession on the Massaranduba River, a major tributary far up the Amazon. There is gold in the Massaranduba valley, and rumors of diamonds and emeralds as well. But what fires Jul ian is the chance to explore the tropic frontier, to prospect and map the river and rain forest, to test himself against extreme physical hardships while at the same time proving himself in the heady world of international finance...
Miss Remick won an Academy Award nomination for her performance in "The Days of Wine and Roses," in which she helped her alcoholic husband. Jack Lemmon '47, and became an alcoholic herself. More recently she has starred opposite Steve McQueen in "Baby the Rain Must Fall...