Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unsettling Toll. As chairman of the Senate Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency, Dodd conducted hearings that disclosed some unsettling facts. In 1963, approximately 1,000,000 "dangerous weapons" were sold by mail-order firms. Of some 5,000 persons murdered with firearms that year, about 2,500 were shot with mail-order guns. In Chicago, over a three-year period, 4,000 citizens bought weapons from just two mail-order dealers; of the buyers, 1,000 had criminal records...
...government victories over the past month can be credited largely to the application of U.S. air power within South Viet Nam proper. Kills by air strikes mounted from 30% of 1964's Viet Cong toll to a remarkable 87% last month. Greater U.S. involvement has also boosted South Vietnamese morale. Still, no U.S. or South Vietnamese officials were naive enough to believe that the tide had yet turned in the overall battle. Political instability is still rife in Saigon, where last week a brief mutiny threatened Admiral Chung Tan Cang, boss of the South Vietnamese navy...
...Sidewinders. Hanoi's propagandists met the challenge from the air with the only thing they have to spare: words. North Viet Nam's goat-bearded President Ho Chi Minh soothed his anxious population with wild claims of 165 U.S. and South Vietnamese planes shot down (the actual toll since February has been less than 30). But Ho apparently did get help of sorts from Red China late last week when four silvery MIG-17s tangled briefly with U.S. Navy Phantom jets, then fled toward the Chinese island of Hainan, 150 miles east of North Viet Nam. In terms...
...Coliseum. The occasion was the Ninth Annual International Auto Show, and the doctors were doing their bit to urge more safety features in autos. The demonstration was just one more in a growing chorus of demands that Detroit do something both to curb the rising highway accident toll and to cut down its annual contribution of 92 million tons of carbon monoxide to air pollution...
...scandalous Smyrna massacre of 1922, in which 100,000 Greeks and Armenians were allegedly consumed in a conflagration lit by the victorious Turks, is minimized by Kinross, who accepts the U.S. State Department's conclusions: the death toll was about 2,000, and the fire was started by accident...