Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been before the cameras several times in Israel, and it is not likely that Huston will harbor any qualms about working with his daughter in her first start. It was exactly 20 years ago that he directed his father, the late Walter Huston, in the classic Treasure of the Sierra Madre...
...closely scrutinized by statisticians as American poverty. From Michael Harrington's 1962 study. The Other America, to last month's report by the Citizens' Crusade Against Poverty, Hunger, U.S.A., which found that 10 million Americans are chronically malnourished, the condition of the U.S. poor has been catalogued in a sierra of statistics. Central to any understanding of the subject is the "poverty line," a sliding scale devised five years ago by Social Security Economist Mollie Orshansky. Her flexible income line rises for large urban families and recedes for those in rural areas, dipping as low as $1,180 a year...
...become an idol of the New Left. Posters invoking his memory are carried by student demonstrators, and half a dozen books by or about Che have been published since his death. Among them are two editions of Guevara's recollections of the Cuban insurrection in the Sierra Maestra. Several publishers have tried to pry Che's 30,000-word Bolivian diary out of the hands of the Bolivian army, which seized it, but so far all such negotiations have bogged down...
...Sierra Leone, which had two army coups in quick succession a little more than a year ago, underwent another one of a somewhat different order last week. Officers had led the previous coups, but this time it was soldiers from the 1,600-man army who mutinied against their superiors and decided to take their turn at governing the country. Dissatisfied over low pay and poor living conditions, troops led by sergeants rose first in the town of Darn and then the capital of Freetown. At least twelve people were killed as a contingent of 300 men seized and threw...
Perhaps realizing that they needed a little experienced help, the new junta, including not only sergeants but privates and police patrolmen as well, summoned home Colonel John Bangura, a counselor in Sierra Leone's Washington embassy, to head an interim ruling council. As second in command, the junta brought home Lieut. Colonel Patrick Genda, the ambassador to Liberia. As they arrived in Freetown, both men were greeted by happy crowds clutching signs that read "Welcome to Freedom" and "Welcome, Our Saviors...