Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kind of preview of the Kingdom they expect momentarily, when 144,000 of them will run heaven and the rest will inherit a purged earth to enjoy the everlasting life. At second base a speaker's platform slowly revolved, surrounded by banks of flowers and five umbrella-shaded clusters of chairs for notables. For six days, Witness leaders expounded the faith over 192 loudspeakers, drenching every cranny of the stadium with inspirational sound. Most often at the microphone was Nathan Homer Knorr, 56, of Brooklyn, who is third president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, official title...
...believed had been with a rebel band that burned his plantation. He led a pick-up mob of whites down Luanda's main street. The mob literally tore one man limb from limb, pitched the other screaming off a six-story roof to crash through the candy-striped umbrella of a sidewalk cafe. The police casually watched...
Testifying before a church trial, Mrs. Brandy told of "committee meetings" (the vicar's euphemism) on the floor in his study, in his bedroom, and in his automobile. Once, she said, when she carelessly left her umbrella in Thomas' car, he left it for her to pick up behind a statue of the Virgin in the vicar's suburban London church in Balham Hill. Nor was Mrs. Brandy the only witness against the vicar. The wife of his curate said that Thomas had grabbed her "and pressed his body into mine" when she visited his study...
...camera's eye pans over the ravages of a Lost Weekend in Eliot House, as seven bleary-eyed dissipates scratch their navels, belch, and squint unbelievingly as an elegant figure, clutching a Neville Chamberlain umbrella, hoists himself through an upper-story window into their midst. And so begins "Three Giant Steps," a 21-minute silent comic film which opens tomorrow night in the Eliot House dining hall...
...Frente buildup, the underground sabotage operations of the M.R.P. inside Cuba came almost to a halt for lack of matériel. In November, Manolo Ray sneaked out of Cuba to the U.S., hoping to win some support. Anxious to collect all anti-Castro organizations under one umbrella, the CIA offered to help M.R.P. on condition that it join Varona's Frente. The M.R.P. refused. The M.R.P. asked that arms be dropped to guerrillas in Escambray. The CIA, say the exiles, finally agreed, but on condition that the weapons be stamped with the Frente's initials. The M.R.P...