Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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REPORTED TO BE ALIVE, by Grant Wolfkill with Jerry A. Rose. Prisoner-of-war horrors are only the setting for NBC Cameraman Wolfkill's personal account of his 15-month imprisonment by the Communist Pathet Lao. The real story lies in the details of a human being's contest with himself and his sanity while at the mercy of the merciless...
...Ellen Jackson, a 31-year old Negro mother in Roxbury, had not been involved in the school disputes. She had been a parent counselor for the Northern Student Movement, but nothing more controversial than that. But Mrs. Jackson had four children in the three affected schools. And so she rose one evening in a Project Headstart meeting to ask that Negro parents mobilize against the threat of double sessions...
...first week of August, with the aid pledge still in limbo, Ayub attacked the U.S. in a broadcast for using the funds as a political weapon. He asserted Pakistan's "right to normalize our relations with our neighbors however different our ideologies might be." But Johnson's temper only rose, and finally a frustrated Ayub sent carefully trained guerillas across the cease-fire line into Indian Kashmir. His timing indicates that the United States rather than the United Nations had actually been responsible for maintaining that fragile armistice. When American-Pakistani relations broke down, Ayub could see no point...
Cable to Saigon. After a 17½-hour day, Lyndon was abed by 12:20 a.m. At 5 o'clock, just as his party for Congress was breaking up, the President rose, showered, shaved and read to his nurse some passages from John Bailey's Book of Family Prayer. Press Secretary Moyers arrived at 5:20 for last-minute instructions, and Lyndon had a slew of them, including a request to cable General William C. Westmoreland, U.S. commander in South Viet Nam, right after the operation, "so our men in Viet Nam will know of my progress...
They have not only survived- they are thriving as never before. Sales by traditional booksellers (excluding discounters) rose 9% last year to $148 million, and this year they are expected to jump another 10% to 15%. How many of the books sold are actually read is a question beyond statistics. At any rate, booksellers, whose hardcover markup runs to 40% or better, are expecting a record fall. Brentano's Schwartz is admitting how wrong he was in a concrete way: he is doubling the size of his main store on Fifth Avenue, planning to add five more branches...