Word: towing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doubt about it, Congolese Rebel Leader Christophe Gbenye is steadily gaining friends in the rest of Africa. While his henchmen huddled in Cairo with Algerian and Egyptian officials discussing more aid for the rebellion, Gbenye himself turned up in Uganda with the rulers of three East African republics in tow. Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, Uganda's Apollo Milton Obote and Tanzania's Julius Nyerere seemed genuinely thrilled to help the Congolese "hero," and Western diplomats sensed a rising tide of anti-Americanism growing from the meeting...
...Summit. Barry arrived at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria one afternoon last week. In tow was Burch, who waited across the hall from the summit suite "in case I'm needed." He was not. Ike and Nixon tried to convince Goldwater that he would only further damage the party if he insisted on trying to control the G.O.P. through Burch's stewardship as chairman. "Barry," said Ike, "you'll be a bigger man if you recognize the situation." As Nixon described the talks later: "We agreed that Mr. Burch, as a professional national chairman, had done...
some more squeamish Cliffies field the hall, their dates in tow. But most stayed and sought, with Ginsberg, "the thrill delicious," which might sometimes be merely "playing with myself unbeknownst to the entire population of Far Rockaway...
Lately arrived from the provinces with mothers in tow, many of the new dancers have yet to reach voting age. Offstage they are disarmingly shy and giggly. Cloistered in temples of the dance since childhood, they are strangers to the ways of the world and such diver sions as dating and social dancing. The best of the new generation is notable for their agility and stature. ("I love tall girls," says Balanchine. "The more you can see the better.") Most prom ising of Balanchine's new favorites...
...mother instructed her young son, "spit at him." The man was Thomas F. Nevins, an assistant superintendent of the New York City board of education. The mother was one of 65 parents who for three days had forced their way into Jackson Heights' P.S. 149, children in tow, to protest the compulsory exchange of students between the previously all-white school and one predominantly attended by Negroes six blocks away...