Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Greek-born Christopher, 57, came to the U.S. as a two-year-old, rose from the tenements to amass a modest fortune as one of northern California's biggest independent dairy distributors. A city supervisor for ten years before becoming mayor, Christopher made his political personality as familiar to northern Californians as his milk bottles. He was a leading Rockefeller supporter in the 1964 presidential primary, whereas Southern California's Reagan made a name as a Goldwater speechmaker-a difference that Christopher emphasized, along with Reagan's lack of administrative experience, on a ten-city, hat-tossing...
...take long. When Lobengula's armies finally rose in 1893, company police cut them down with machine guns, burned his capital to the ground, and made off with half a million cattle. Lobengula, forced to flee for his life, died in flight. The company took over his throne...
...Brazilian military men who rose up 19 months ago against corruption and Communism last week rose up once again. In Brasilia's Planalto Palace, President Humberto Castello Branco marched to a microphone and made the announcement. "The revolution is alive," he said. "It will not retreat. It has promoted reforms and will continue to undertake them. However, agitators are menacing the revolutionary order precisely when the revolution is trying to give the people practice in the discipline of exercising democracy...
Today in the School Committee elections Bostonians face a clear choice between progress and stagnation. Mrs. Louise Day Hicks and her confederates William O'Connor and Thomas Eisenstadt propose to ignore the fact that Negro enrollment rose by 1900 last year, and white enrollment fell by 1500; they encourage the belief that all Negro children can be crammed into Roxbury's ancient schools...
...only ask in the face of these costs whether "victory" will, in any case, be possible. A recent article in the Washington Post reported that full-time Viet Cong strength rose from 65,000 to 80,000 during the month of September alone. Hanoi and Peaking may withhold their armies only so long. And increased bombing can only alienate large pockets of the Vietnamese population...