Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russian army surged into East Prussia and besieged the fortress city of Konigsberg. Some of the panicky citizens committed suicide. Others began learning welcoming phrases in Russian. Count von Lehndorff, a civilian surgeon, awaited the end with Christian resignation and continued operating on wounded soldiers and civilians until a shell dismantled his surgery. A woman told him, "Our Führer will never permit the Russians to get us; he'd rather gas us first...
...SHELL'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF GOLF (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Première of a new series of international golf tournaments. American Dave Marr plays Britain's Bernard Hunt in England...
...Middle East was largely limited to Russia's immediate neighbors, Turkey and Iran-where he had scant success. But the ubiquitous Khrushchev boldly leapfrogged smack into the area, sending legions of comrade plenipotentiaries armed with aid, or ready to aid with arms. Today, from the great shell of the Aswan High Dam rising from the Egyptian Nile to T-54 tanks rumbling down the boulevards of Baghdad, with swarms of MIG jets on patrol over Syria or strafing Royalist rebels in Yemen, the Soviet presence in the Middle East is evident where it had never been known before...
...nobody tops Sonny Werblin, president of the American Football League's New York Jets. Werblin collects quarterbacks. He had three last season, and they cost him $48,000. Now he has six. He picked up Virginia Tech's Bob Schweickert for a song, but he had to shell out $200,000 for Notre Dame's Heisman Trophy winner, John Huarte. And to land Alabama's Joe Namath, he went all the way to $400,000-the highest price ever paid for a rookie in the history of pro football...
Private Success. In a development that is especially galling to ENEL's managers, the dispossessed power companies are using their compensation to invest in profitable new private enterprises. Edison, whose corporate shell was left in private hands after nationalization, is now a leader in chemicals, computers and farm equipment. Adriatic Electric has merged with huge and powerful Montecatini. Even the state-owned IRI Finelettrica-which managed to get "nationalized" by being swallowed up by ENEL-has shifted its investments into steel and a nationwide telephone system, is now channeling compensation money into new industrial development in southern Italy...