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Dates: during 1960-1969
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N.C.A.A. FOOTBALL (ABC, 3:45-7 p.m.). Tennessee v. Georgia in the season's opener from Knoxville...
Sensibly, the generals are therefore straining to prevent the protest at Fort Hood from becoming a case of Negroes v. the Army. When the demonstration began, the soldiers' division commander, Major General John K. Boles Jr., even spent close to an hour pleading with the recalcitrant troopers, persuaded 17 men to abandon the sit-in and return to barracks. By arresting the 43, in the parking lot, the Army ruled out bringing a charge of refusal to board the airlift to Chicago later in the day. The Army might also have tried them en masse. Instead, they will...
...anarchists, representing the dissatisfied, the disgruntled and the dyspeptic of 37 nations, had convened for their third postwar conference. On their agenda were such burning issues as "Anarchism v. Marxism in the 20th Century" and "The Perspective for Practical Anarchist Expansion in the Imperialist Bloc." The anarchists made the most of the issues. Under their red and black flags, Robert's Rules of Disorder prevailed, and arguments flared into name-calling and an unending flood of combative press releases...
Died. Princess Marina, 61, Duchess of Kent, Greek-born aunt of Queen Elizabeth II; of a brain tumor; in London. Gifted with beauty and intelligence (she spoke eight languages), the princess was haunted by tragedy. Her husband, Prince George, son of Britain's King George V, was killed in 1942 while on a wartime mission to Iceland. In spite of it all, she continued in the public eye, sponsored numerous charities, and served as a globetrotting goodwill ambassador for the Queen...
...being well turned again for a new generation of voters. F.D.R.'s "New Deal" was Prime Minister David Lloyd George's campaign slogan of 1919, and Robert La Follette used it in 1924. But both usages were antedated in writings by Carl Schurz in 1871 and Petroleum V. Nasby in 1866. Otherwise the phrase is probably as old as card games...