Word: tente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tend toward a more Miamistyle opulence. And near Port Antonio at the island's eastern end, where the vegetation is lushly tropical from the rainfall trapped by the towering Blue Mountains, is the picturesque San San section, where the Aga Khan's Uncle Sadruddin has pitched a tent, along with Steel Baron Heinrich Thyssen and a collection of Swedish shipping moguls...
Wrong Skin. Franklin's cool dignity comes from his doughty father, one of Oklahoma's first Negro lawyers. No sooner had Lawyer Franklin begun practice in segregated Tulsa in 1921 than race rioters burned down his office. He went on in a tent, became one of the state's leading citizens. "My father scorned segregation as a mark of indignity," recalls his son. "He paid no attention to signs marked 'Negro' and 'White.' He went where he pleased, mingling with people like any other...
...Congresswoman observed, "the arguments used against general education programs are never used against education by the Pentagon: 'Segregation-Integration,' 'church-state issue,' 'Federal control', 'this is just the beginning,' 'it's letting the camel get its nose into the tent', 'we can't afford it-taxes are too high'--such arguments are never heard. The money is appropriated with little question...
Directions '63 (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). In a TV play based on Henri Gheon's Christmas in the Market Place, Folk Singer Josh White stars as one of a group of migrant workers in Florida who set up a tent to act out the Nativity scene...
...higher in the front lines against the Chinese. Scarcely had Behr arrived before he was on his way to the forward headquarters at Tezpur. Soldier to soldier, an Indian commander told him: "We are hanging by our eyelashes." Emergency living conditions in Tezpur were primitive. "I slept in a tent, and one night a sacred cow ate my socks." reported Behr. After badgering authorities, he was permitted to visit the front lines. In Jeep and truck, the journey took 18 hours through nearly impenetrable jungles and over narrow, rutted mountain paths up to 13,000 ft. high. Says Behr...