Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago, which has already logged more incidents this year than in all of 1960, is not alone among Northern cities with its growing tension. Detroit is edgily watching interracial efforts to integrate a suburban swimming pool. And in New York one humid night last week, 60 silent members of a gang that calls itself the Harlem Lords marched across a Harlem River bridge for a rumble in The Bronx. Armed with linoleum knives, lengths of pipe and baling hooks, they warmed up by attacking 20 pedestrians. They were finally stopped by two policemen who held them back with drawn pistols...
...officials would breathe easier when Van Fleet boarded his plane and left. Sighed one embassy aide: "He could have better helped both Americans and Koreans here by remaining silent...
...from the capsule. Away snapped the umbilical cord that had supplied oxygen, power and communication. The rocket was on its own. As it waited for the starter's button, a cloud of white vapor from the liquid oxygen spread like a puddle over its pad. The crowd fell silent. Exactly at T, the rocket roared, rose off the ground and, standing on its tail of flame, climbed smoothly into...
...Wants to Sleep (in Polish). The Poles, of all people, rediscover a truth from U.S. silent-film days: that while the police may not be funny, policemen are -and the result is a wacky cops-and-robbers knockabout...
Along the way, there are some arresting scenes: Joe Kennedy, the silent partner in his son's campaign, working quietly and effectively among his friends and associates to bring 80 of New York's 114 convention delegates into camp. Or an elated Dick Nixon, watching the nervous, weary image of Jack Kennedy delivering his acceptance speech on his TV screen and deciding then and there that the television debates would be a pushover: "The Vice President offered the observation that he thought it a poor performance, way over people's heads, too fast. He could take this...