Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Capitalists. The first squabble inside the gloomy hall, often used as a wrestling arena, quickly showed the weakness of the S.D.S. regulars and the strength of the P.L.P., which had packed the convention with 700 well-drilled supporters. A motion backed by the central headquarters group, the national office, to admit reporters (after payment of $25 and signing of a security pledge) was massively defeated by 90% of the delegates. The defeat was the first of a series of humiliations for National Secretary Michael Klonsky, 26, and Interorganizational Secretary Bernardine Dohrn, 27. The decision after an hour...
...Infantry brigades and the Marine regimental combat team include roughly 17,000 men. They will be joined by about another 8,000 rear-echelon and naval personnel. The total number of American servicemen in the country will go down by less that 5%?but U.S. ground combat strength will be reduced by nearly...
...Russians have generally kept some 20 army divisions stationed in the Trans-Baikal and Far Eastern military regions. These have recently been beefed up to full strength, and some reports suggest that new divisions have been added-bringing total estimated armed strength up to as many as 1,500,000 men. Most of these are concentrated along the Trans-Siberian Railway east of Irkutsk. In Mongolia, theoretically an independent republic, Soviet authorities have stationed up to 200,000 new troops under a defense treaty signed in 1966. Fighter planes, which can land almost anywhere on the flat Mongolian plateau...
Both works featured the company's prima ballerina, Brazilian-born Marcia Haydee, 29, a dancer of stunning technique with the rare ability to turn the simplest body movement into a full statement. Touchingly simple as the lovelorn Russian girl who draws strength from rejection, deliciously rambunctious as Shakespeare's ultimately tamed volcano, Haydee is to the dance what Maria Callas has been to opera. She is an artist incapable of a dull or empty gesture, able to communicate a state of mind through an impressive range of movement or even by standing still. Her frequent partner is California...
...strength of David Halberstam's The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy (Random House; $4.95) lies in a felicity of language and a feeling for the political and social unease in the U.S. as the election of 1968 approached. (Halberstam, now 35 and an editor of Harper's magazine, won a Pulitzer prize for his 1963 New York Times coverage of Viet Nam.) He begins his account in the late summer of 1967 with a meeting between Bobby and Allard Lowenstem, a leader of the gathering anti-Johnson forces. He follows the Senator through his doomed campaign, ending with...