Word: roundup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...army under direct attack and with military coups exploding around the Caribbean, Betancourt decided to crack down on the Reds once and for all. He suspended the constitutional immunity of 23 Communist and Castroite Congressmen suspected of being the brains behind the F.A.L.N., ordered their arrest and the roundup of other Red leaders in Venezuela. Convoys of battle-ready infantrymen and paratroopers poured into Caracas to reinforce the police. At week's end six of the 23 Congressmen had been arrested and turned over to the military for trial; another 200 far leftist leaders were rounded...
...cycle? Explanations whiz in like so many screwballs, but the fact remains: it's a pitcher's year. Latter-day Fellers are joining the 20-game Winners Club as if it were the Kiwanis, and what used to be a charmed circle is turning into a vast roundup. Last week four more pitchers followed the Los Angeles Dodgers' Sandy Koufax, this year's charter member, into the club,*and at least eight others are about to ask for membership cards...
...center. She also planned to enroll her son Garth, 8, in a nearby public school in order to sue for the removal of the Roman Catholic nuns who work there as teachers. The first night in town, her car developed four flat tires. The weekly paper ran a spirited roundup of unflattering comment from unidentified citizens. And the school board was not at all sure they could find a place for Garth...
...were so many Red spies coming to light at once?* Whenever one great power has a big espionage roundup, as Russia did last May in the trial of Russian Scientist Oleg Penkovsky, who turned out to be a longtime Western agent, spies elsewhere brace themselves for a period of rough weather. Furthermore, there is a seasonal factor involved; summer is the traditional time to put the finger on spies. Around the end of June, many Communist "diplomats" prepare to go home for vacations and new instructions. Having had an eye on them already, the FBI then often decides to pounce...
Oldtimers got it too. The Untouchables has been given the St. Valentine's Day treatment after four years. Have Gun, Will Travel and The Rifleman, six and five years old respectively, are headed for the last roundup. Car 54 will soon be roughly three cubic feet of crushed scrap steel. Naked City, the fine semidocumentary on New York police work filmed in the city streets, is finished too. The last vestiges of live, prime-time drama, the U.S. Steel Hour and Armstrong Circle Theater, are also passing away. Moreover, all three college-level educational shows are leaving the networks...