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...adventure was far from stifled; rather, it flared forth in a golden age of English exploration and mountaineering. Similarly, but even more so, many Americans of the 1960s refuse to react to prosperity as though it were the smoke from the poppy seed, and instead feel it as the thorn that goads them toward the bold, dangerous and somehow immensely satisfying fundamentals of existence...
...case before the U.S. Supreme Court. He had proved himself to be one of New York's alltime champion vote getters in his 17th Congressional District. He was one of the toughest, go-it-alone independents in Congress, a top House expert on civil rights legislation-and a thorn in the side of his own party regulars...
...Charlie. Some six miles away on the road to Plei Me, the tank-led relief column was braced for ambush. When it erupted from a thorn thicket, the tanks wheeled into something resembling the old wild West wagon-train circle-but there the similarity ended. Loaded with heavy canister (finned, inch-long small shot), the tank guns blazed away point-blank at the jungle, mowing the brush to stubble as if a huge rotary mower had cut a 40-yd. swath on each side of the road. Dozens of shredded enemy bodies-arms, legs, heads, viscera-were plastered against...
...wars often have the virtue of deciding issues more definitely than diplomacy. Israel exists today not because the Jews were capable negotiators but because they were courageous fighters against the Arabs. India ignored its own sanctimonious praise of peace to seize Portuguese Goa and thus permanently removed that galling thorn from its side. By contrast, the feud between Turkish and Greek Cypriots still festers despite years of negotiations and may never be settled short of full-scale civil...
Died. Balfour Bowen Thorn Lord, 58, Democratic Party chief in New Jersey since 1961 and chairman for 17 years of powerful Mercer County (which includes Trenton), a skillful organizer who in 1954 was widely credited with electing Governor Robert B. Meyner after ten years of Republican rule, but proved less successful himself in 1960 when he ran for the U.S. Senate against Clifford Case, losing by 335,861 votes (while President Kennedy won the state by 22,091), after which he helped his former law partner Richard Hughes win the governorship in 1962; by his own hand (depressed...