Word: tain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civilian jobs, a practice that makes guerrilla fight ing more attractive and assures Asifa penetration into all levels of civilian life. They undergo formal guerrilla train mg at bases such as the Karamah refugee camp, which was the mam target of last week's Israeli assault. To main tain a semblance of secrecy, Asifa is organized into c. like "elements" of 30 to 40 men, each of which takes orders only from a central high command. It also tor-bids its members to use their correct names, assigns each a number or pseudonym instead...
Died. Don Quinn, 67, creator of radio's old Fibber McGee and Molly show; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. " 'Tain't funny, McGee," said Molly to her roguish husband. Well, it was-so funny, in fact, that the line went into the language, and the nittering, nattering couple at 79 Wistful Vista enjoyed one of the longest lives in radio comedy, from 1935 to 1956, when they died a natural death...
...decision of the U.S. to main tain a presence in this region has been of crucial importance. Every political leader within the area now recognizes that without that presence, the political fate of the region as a whole would have been drastically different. The U.S. has bought time for some 200 million people to develop, without their ceaselessly being confronted with combined external-internal Communist threats...
...reserve force of 41 divisions, which are located in the continental U.S. The Defense Department meanwhile is expected to authorize creation of a new division that, in effect, would actually strengthen the strategic reserve by bringing its force up to five full divisions. The U.S. will continue to main tain five divisions in West Germany and two in Korea...
...deep solutions are suggested in this subtle and meticulously observed study. Yet Director Norman Jewison has used his camera to extract a cer tain rough-cut beauty from each protagonist. He has shown, furthermore, that men can join hands out of fear and hatred and shape from base emotions something identifiable as a kind of love. In this he is immeasurably helped by performances from Steiger and Poitier that break brilliantly with black-white stereotype...