Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old prime minister is an imposing figure who gives the impression that he is both competent and sure of himself. He speaks with a mild British accent, but, before a Harvard audience, he frequently used American idioms and seemed to have read everything published in the United States--from daily newspapers to the texts of Presidential speeches...
There is a strong poem written by a black poet and it is a poem from which I would like to read to you. The name of the poem is DEMOCRACY. The man who wrote the poem was Langston Hughes. He speaks of the white people who tell him to go slowly. He says this is a thing he cannot do. His people are dying. His life has been a prison. His skin has marked him forever as a man who was not free to live and breathe. He is not sure what Democracy should mean--but he knows...
...After receiving a detailed, classified briefing on Thailand affairs, a U.S. State Department officer in Bangkok read our May 27, 1966 cover story on the Thai King and Queen. He found the story more comprehensive than the briefing, including much information considered quite inside by Thai authorities. Reports Bangkok Bureau Chief Louis Kraar: "Many military officers assigned to Thailand say they have used the story as orientation because it was just about the only thing that was both complete and current, yet concise." ¶ On five-acre Pigeon Island in the South Pacific, Tom Hepworth, who runs a trading post...
...government troops; another bullet knocked his M-l semiautomatic carbine right out of his hands. In Che's rucksack, the Rangers found a book entitled Essays on Contemporary Capitalism, several codes, two war diaries, some messages of support from "Ariel"-apparently Castro-and a personal notebook. "It seems," read one recent notebook entry in Che's tight, crisp handwriting, "that this is reaching...
Died. Rear Admiral Albert C. Read, 80, commander of the first plane to fly the Atlantic; of pneumonia; in Miami. On May 8, 1919, Read and 17 other Navy flyers clambered into three wood-and-canvas seaplanes, and headed out from Rockaway, L.I., bound for Plymouth, England. Two of the planes were hammered down by squalls off the Azores, but Read somehow kept his NC4 aloft and eventually set down in Plymouth-after 23 days, seven stops, 3,936 miles. Actual flying time: 52 hr. 3 min. for an average of 75.6 m.p.h...