Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rademaekers, who has been working on Iron Curtain affairs since 1955 and was in Hungary during the 1956 revolt, dipped into East Berlin twelve times last week-crossing the border at dawn, dusk and midnight-walking, driving, and once taking a ghostly ride through East Berlin's heavily guarded U-bahn (subway) stations. He also scouted the length of the East-West Berlin border from Teltow Canal in the south to Tegeler Forst in the north, scrambling over rubble and through potato patches, often attracting the nervous attention of the armed border guards. At week's end, Washington...
...Cincinnati revolt against Hoffa was led by an outspoken ex-milkman named James T. Luken, 39, president of the Teamsters' Cincinnati Joint Council, who has long tried to curb Hoffa's power grab from within the union. But after the Miami convention, where Hoffa showed "the most complete dictatorial control that I have ever witnessed or read of in a free society," Luken decided that enough was enough, went home to persuade his workers to vote...
...Bobbing Beard. The danger was that the tense crowds on both sides of the barriers might merge and touch off the East German revolt that everyone feared. Already Moscow's famed Marshal Ivan Konev had moved two divisions of Russian troops into Berlin's outskirts, ready for the kind of action that the Soviets had employed to put down the abortive 1953 East German revolt. But the West Berliners were not intimidated. "Berlin bleibt frei, Berlin bleibt frei" (Berlin will remain free), chanted a crowd of 30,000 gathered a stone's throw from the Vopos...
...also some small signs that Ramfis Trujillo may be finding his father's mantle a little heavy. In an hour-long interview with a New York Times correspondent last week, Ramfis pleaded for a resumption of U.S. diplomatic relations, spoke gloomily of the threat of a full-scale revolt, possibly within his own armed forces, unless other nations prop him up. Without their "moral support," he said, "there will develop here a problem worse than in Cuba." Ramfis also insisted that he has no intention of running for President next May, and added that as far as he knows...
...Where President Arturo Frondizi in familiar style, last week summarily put down a vest-pocket revolt of 150 ultranationalists without firing a shot, thus surviving his 3Oth crisis in 39 months in office...