Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Viet Nam is no less of a morass, and the flag-draped coffins still come home to Oswego and Oakland from Cu Chi and Da Nang; yet the nation has decided, without its President's precisely saying so, that it is all over except for a bit more shooting. After the prodding rhetoric of John Kennedy and the strident goading of Lyndon Johnson, Americans, for the moment, are at unaccustomed ease...
...care after an unknown assailant nearly disabled him with a karate chop on his neck while he was campaigning last month in Springfield, Ill., a Boyle stronghold. "I was knocked unconscious," says Yablonski. "When I woke up, my arms were paralyzed. My right hand and right foot are still numb...
...members. "Tony Boyle and his associates thought they owned the union," said Yablonski after his nomination victory last week. "Now at long last he knows he misjudged the men who belong to this union." Although election odds as of now favor Boyle, dissatisfaction among rank-and-file miners is still growing. The price of Boyle's misjudgment could...
What Moynahan pretends to be writing this time is still another crisis-of-identity novel. His purported antihero, Myles McCormick, floats adrift and lost in the rare-books stacks of the Boston Free Library. (Moynahan once worked at the Boston Public Library...
...Still, a patient render can find what he needs to know from Ziegler. He tells the grisly stories-how the Tartars besieged a Crimean port, for instance, catapulating the corpses of their own plague-stricken comrades over the city walls to infect the defenders. But he also writes clearly of dry demography. A deadly series of floods and bad harvests had left much of Europe's population ill nourished and more susceptible to plague. And he is able enough in suggesting some of the plague's historic results. It permanently helped weaken the authority of the Catholic Church...