Word: storme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moscow Politburo's decision to go to Czechoslovakia becalmed temporarily a storm that has darkened the skies of all Eastern Europe. It was nearly as surprising a concession for the Russians to make as it would have been for John F. Kennedy and his Cabinet to have journeyed to Havana for talks during the Cuban missile crisis. Never in the Soviet Union's 50-year history has the entire party leadership traveled abroad. The Russians had at first peremptorily insisted that the Czechoslovaks come to the Soviet Union...
...unusual number of cases, one overriding problem-the rights of the individual. In so doing, the court guaranteed that it would spark controversy. As Oliver Wendell Holmes said of the court in one of his celebrated remarks: "We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of the storm center...
Novelist and Journalist John Hersey has dealt with lofty subjects: death by holocaust (Hiroshima), extremes of heroism (The Wall), a man against the sea (Under the Eye of the Storm). So, at first glance, a sordid shooting in a seedy motel during last summer's Detroit riots hardly seems potential material for him. Yet out of these unpromising ingredients, Hersey has fashioned a book, The Algiers Motel Incident (Knopf; $5.95) that measures up to his better work. "This episode," he writes, "contained all the mythic themes of racial strife in the U.S.: the arm of the law taking...
Died. Dorothy Gish, 70, sister of Lillian, who often teamed with the famous silent-screen star in the earliest days of motion pictures, appeared in more than 25 films, including Orphans of the Storm (1922), Madame Pompadour (1927), and numerous Broadway plays; of bronchial pneumonia; in Rapallo, Italy...
...next week Harvard rebounded to dump Penn, 45-7. It was the calm before the storm. In Soldiers Field Nov. 11, before 38,000 witnesses, Princeton murdered Captain Don Chiafaro's crew, 45-6. The Tigers' fullback Ellis Moore scored five touch-downs in his role as chief assassin. Brown fell, though not without a struggle...