Word: tells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shot Point-Blanlc. As the Russians tell it, the fighting was a coolly calculated, carefully planned act of aggression on the part of the Chinese. Under cover of wintry night, some 300 Chinese soldiers camouflaged in white uniforms crept across the river's ice to the 6,200-sq.-yd. island. Taking advantage of a low hill and the island's trees and shrubs, they dispersed in ambush formation. A second unit concentrated mortars, grenade throwers and heavy machine guns on the Chinese side of the river and strung field telephone lines between the two units...
...full name and title is Willie D. Davenport, Olympic Champion Hurdler. The "D" doesn't stand for anything, he says, though sometimes he likes to tell his girl friends that it means "dangerous." On the track "D" is strictly for diligent, dependable and, at least to some fans, dull. Willie is just too predictable. At this year's Millrose Games in Madison Square Garden, for example, a group of spectators, wagering among themselves, stopped short when it came to the 60-yd. high hurdles. "Hey, you wanna bet on this event?" said one. "Are you kiddin'?" cried...
Presumably no one would baldly tell a child that he was suffering from an illness that was almost certain to prove fatal. Yet, say the San Francisco researchers: "It is a grave error to think that a child over four or five years of age who is dying of a terminal illness does not realize its seriousness. We have seen the pathetic consequence of the loneliness of a fatally ill child who has no one with whom he may talk over his concerns because his parents are trying to shield him. The question is not whether to talk about...
Watching Cronkite. As the afternoon wears on, one can tell the time by the edginess in the air in the Huntley-Brinkley newsroom. David is supercool, strolling occasionally from his private office to flip his copy onto the producer's desk. There are three echelons of editors, but none of them lays a glove on Brinkley's stuff. At 6:20 p.m., he heads for the studio three flights up. Huntley wears makeup. Brinkley never does. Generally, during the Huntley or filmed items and the commercials, Brinkley is still sandpapering his own prose and cutting it to size...
...crime pays-or, to quote Mario Puzo quoting Honoré de Balzac: "Behind every great fortune there is a crime." When Puzo gets around to updating Balzac's ever so slight overstatement, he has the youngest and smartest son of the oldest and smartest New York Mafia boss tell his lank Yankee bride: "In my history course at Dartmouth we did some background on all the Presidents and they had fathers and grandfathers who were lucky they didn't get hanged...