Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Viet Nam's coast since last summer. The Coast Guard cutter Point Grey intercepted a 120-ft., 100-ton freighter-steaming without running lights and laden with ammunition-off Ca Mau Peninsula. When the freighter refused to heave to, Point Grey opened up with 81-mm. mortars, ran the suspect aground...
...heat wave. Couples lounged inertly in the lilac-scented shade of the parks along Boulevard Magheru, sipped raspberry soda out of communal glasses, or took in the desultory lake breeze at the Pescarus Restaurant. Then, with an electric crackle, loudspeakers began to blare, and a tingle ran through the crowd...
...tingle was caused by a four-hour speech from Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of Rumania's Communist Party. Totally unexpected and unheralded, it was a stinging attack on the Soviet Union that ran the gamut from Lenin through the Stalin era to the current Russian dispute with Red China. Tucked in, as pungently as the garlic in a Rumanian mititei sausage, was the expected plug for "nationalistic Communism" that Ceausescu has made popular in Eastern Europe...
...long been the Phillips Collection in Washington, an ideal haven for art lovers tucked inside a staid Victorian mansion, and New York's Metropolitan, the nation's largest and richest museum. Last week death came to the two men who directed these institutions: Duncan Phillips, 79, who ran the most intimate of museums, his own, and James Joseph Rorimer, 60, who on a Sunday could watch 47,000 visitors pour through the Met's portals. Both men, in their way, had given visual pleasure, instruction and enlightenment to millions...
...computers were beginning to turn up some early warning signs for the current year. The industry's '65 sales record was artificially swollen by sales of 300,000 cars that were ordered but not delivered during a strike late in '64; moreover, sales last year ran more than 600,000 above G.M.'s carefully charted projections of "normal growth"-and insiders knew that they could not keep on beating the numbers game forever...