Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being thwarted by the Army's blind reliance on hardware and explosives. Corson's chosen weapons are the type of security his tiny teams afforded, coupled with social justice and an attempt to free the peasant from both Saigon's tyranny and Viet Cong terror. "I don't want to see wars of national liberation become viable, exportable commodities," says Corson, who views the escalation from about 650 U.S. advisers in 1959 to today's 534,000 troops as a gambler's compulsive urge to multiply his stake on a losing number. As requisites...
...N.R.A.-generated pressure and opposed effective controls. Washington Democrat Warren Magnuson, who as chairman of the Commerce Committee helped bottle up the Dodd bill after J.F.K.'s assassination, said he would now vote for a ban on the mail-order sale of all guns because of "the violence and terror surging through the streets of every county and every state." Democrats William Proxmire and Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, Edmund Muskie of Maine, Mike Monroney of Oklahoma and Republican Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania said that they, too, were preparing to switch...
...pitched whistle. Two missiles smashed into two houses in Gia Long Street and killed eight civilians. Another landed within 200 ft. of the Rex, originally an apartment building and now a U.S. billet. American officers there abandoned their breakfast and threw themselves under tables while Vietnamese waitresses screamed in terror. A fourth round smacked into a bookshop on Tu Do Street, killing two Vietnamese maids; one fell, decapitated, next to the fresh bread she had just bought. The barrage threw Continental Palace Hotel guests out of their beds, cut telecommunications, dug a huge crater only a few feet from...
Though he gained plenty of ground in filmland since leaving football (eight pictures so far), Jim Brown, 32, once the terror of the N.F.L., was thrown for a loss after a scrimmage in Hollywood. Investigating reports of loud screaming in Brown's apartment, two deputies were blocked at the door by the 6-ft. 2-in., 225-lb. fullback. "If you're coming in, you're going to have to go over me," snarled Brown and, said the deputies, straight-armed one officer seven feet back into a wall. Police reinforcements soon overcame Brown's defense...
Died. Dan Duryea, 61, Hollywood's slippery heel (Black Bart, Terror Street, Manhandled); of cancer; in Hollywood. Duryea sparkled as a versatile actor whose rough treatment of women shocked audiences and censors alike (1945's Scarlet Street was banned in New York, probably for his ungentlemanly slapping of Actress Joan Bennett). He went on to portray a modified villain, recently appeared in roles that allowed him to play the gentle soul for a change...