Word: senting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ABOUT the time I arrived, Erwin called in an additional force of approximately 30 helmeted Austin police with clubs, 25 state troopers, and a hook-and-ladder fire truck that could reach the tree people. Feeling secure with his 100 cops, Erwin decided it was time to start. He sent the cops in with orders to "arrest everybody you need to; once the trees are cut down, there won't be anything to protest." (This is an interesting statement all by itself- there are all sorts of things you can do with it: "Go ahead and kill all the Vietnamese...
...Erwin sent in the saws and the bulldozer, with orders to "get the big ones first." They were in such a hurry to get the trees down that they used saws that had been built solely for trimming branches on the trunks. Erwin got so carried away with his own power that he even had his men cut the one big cypress which, according to the university's stadium plan, was supposed to have been spared...
...retreat, Dayan also left the Cabinet meeting. While the other Ministers continued the debate, he went to a Jerusalem hotel, where he wrote out a statement of resignation. But before he could make it public, Premier Golda Meir, who apparently had become alarmed at Dayan's stubbornness, sent aides to bring him to her office for a long talk. Under her calm persuasion, Dayan cooled off and withdrew his resignation threat...
...London, because the finished records of a new John Lennon-Yoko Ono LP album were not ready in time, review copies were sent out in the form of two test pressings, each with a recorded side and a blank side. Most reviewers recognized the dubs for what they were. But Richard Williams, critic for the pop weekly Melody Maker, was caught with his avant-garde down. After listening earnestly to each of the four sides, Williams solemnly reported that sides two and four consisted entirely of single tones, "presumably produced electronically." Their pitch, he noted, varied by microtones and "this...
...Modest in scope, but significant in impact," said Richard Nixon of the foreign-trade proposals that he sent to Congress last week-and so they were. While his message reaffirmed the nation's 35-year-old commitment to freer trade, the President sought only minor new authority to cut tariffs. In effect, he promised that any Nixon Round of trade negotiations would consist only of hard-headed international horse trading...