Word: tensely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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By Tuesday morning, Detroit was shrouded in acrid smoke. The Edsel Ford and John C. Lodge freeways were nearly deserted. Tens of thousands of office and factory workers stayed home. Downtown streets that are normally jammed were almost empty. Looters smashed the windows of a Saks Fifth Avenue branch near...
DEATH! and LIBERATE WUHAN! Radio Peking broadcast an ultimatum ordering the rebels to surrender or be wiped out by the Chinese army. Amid this show of force, Premier Chou Enlai, Peking's most experienced mediator, quietly went to work behind the scenes to negotiate with General Chen for the...
Eastern Europeans love to acquire dollars as inflation hedges and status symbols, but few of them are familiar enough with U.S. currency to spot the fakes. So forgers are indulging in such crudities as adding a zero to single-dollar bills to make them tens, and changing other bills into...
But the refugee problem, which for the past 19 years has probably been the greatest single source of enmity between Israel and the Arab states, has been made vastly more complex by the war. Tens of thousands of new refu gees have left their homes in Israeli-held portions of...
Their place of prominence has long since been taken over by managers of institutional funds who buy and sell huge blocks of stock without batting an eye. Only occasionally can the little man make his presence felt-and last week came one of those occasions. Upset by the Middle East...