Word: rested
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...predictions for the rest of the year: Fidel Castro takes Key West in a sudden action because it lies within Cuba's territorial waters and is a menace to its fishing interests. Senator Fulbright demands we evacuate Miami to avoid possible friction with Castro's forces in Key West. The Archbishop of Cyprus, with the aid of two armed sailboats, impounds an American heavy cruiser. Senator Mansfield recommends that the ship be exchanged for the crew and that $100 million be given for the bishop's inconveniences. The government of Andorra arrests 100 tourists for not genuflecting...
...Lyndon Johnson among them-believe otherwise. Such is Wilbur Mills's prestige among his colleagues that his failure to endorse the tax bill has undoubtedly cost it crucial votes. By the same token, should Mills reverse his field, there are those who would take any odds that the rest of the House, within a matter of weeks or at most months would have more than enough votes to pass...
...violence in Saigon was only a small portion of the fighting that raged through the rest of the country. The first attack fell on Danang, site of the giant Marine base, where 300 Viet Cong infiltrated to the boundary of the Danang airfield and the walls of the South Vietnamese I Corps Headquarters before being driven back. Then, in a domino pattern, the attacks moved southward through the coastal cities of Qui Nhon, Tuy Hoa and Nha Trang, leapfrogged over into the highland cities of Kontum and Pleiku and continued southward into the Delta?where some of the first attacks...
...vast and indomitable as the universe, a physical expression of an untrammeled spirit that refused to be cowed by illness or suffering. Still, as Wyeth said last week, "she was the reason for it." He and his son Nicholas were chief among the mourners who laid Christina Olson to rest in the family burial plot, just 400 yards across Christina's field from her home...
...jail. Some of them haven't paid taxes for years on grounds of pacifism. Since they have reported their income and paid part of their tax, the Internal Revenue Service does not take them to court. It attaches their bank accounts or other assets to recover the rest of the tax, plus a penalty of 6% a year. With this in mind, some pacifists keep enough cash in their checking accounts to save themselves and the IRS a lot of trouble...