Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...condoned by the Government." Perhaps not, but Miami was alive last week with exile activity. Once again, Cubans were turning up at the old clapboard house on 23rd Street that served as a recruiting center for the Bay of Pigs operation, getting physical exams, then mysteriously dropping out of sight. Small groups of Cubans were training at isolated farms outside Miami. At Key Largo, a 28-ft. launch loaded with exile munitions caught fire, was popping while firemen were trying to douse the blaze...
...look chic, Jeanne," said Mme. Georges Pompidou, wife of France's Prime Minister, to the milkmaid at the Pompidous' country place. Jeanne was indeed a fetching sight: gold sandals, gay striped frock in the latest mode, gleaming pearl fingertips. "Merci, madame," replied Jeanne. Then she explained how a farmer's daughter so far from Paris could keep up so surely with style changes: "I read Elle...
...Penitentiary offers a big law library, partly the gift of beneficent lawyers. At Washington's State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, a special "law wing" provides typewriters as well as texts. Some prisoners are getting so legalistic, complains a Tennessee state prosecutor, that "it's getting a damned sight harder to keep them in than to put them...
...Meanwhile, in the hollow or waning-moon part of the cycle, we have had The Waste Makers, The Pyramid Climbers, The Brain Pickers, The Naked Society, and that inevitable-but-yet-unwritten examination of the lunch habits of advertising men, Breath in the Afternoon. Now, with no moon in sight, the co-author of The Split-Level Trap has written The Weekenders...
...This season, four Californians dressed in Grambling black-and-gold have run off with practically every sprint relay in sight, and their times (40 sec. for the 440, 1 min. 23.3 sec. for the 880) are the fastest in the U.S. Last week, at the Southwestern Athletic Conference meet in Houston, they romped to yet another 440-yd. victory, in 40.4 sec. Better still, they have only begun to hit their stride. Donald Owens is only a junior, but he is the captain of the team. The others-Richard Stebbins, Vernus Ragsdale and Donald Meadows-are all sophomores running...