Word: via
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week a Russian Ilyushin 18 turboprop airliner cruised along in the early afternoon sunshine. Alone in the blue skies at 28,000 ft., it had aboard the Soviets' figurehead of state, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Leonid Brezhnev, 54, on his way to visit Guinea via a stopover in Morocco. At precisely 2:18 p.m. the Ilyushin got company...
...City Center, English summaries via transistor radio are a broad but not specific help...
Your article on local support for education [which described a device, based on property taxes, for evaluating school districts' local support for their schools] is seriously misleading. In the good old agrarian days, you could measure community support of schools solely via the local property tax. But those days are gone. Thousands of school districts are now more than half supported by state and federal funds. The School Management survey measures today's effort by yesterday's standards, which is hardly the way to the New Frontier...
...eastern Congo, and anxious to extend their influence once the U.N. roadblocks disappear. In Stanleyville, Antoine Gizenga's pro-Lumumba forces held 300 hostages, prepared to shoot them if Lumumba should die in his Katanga jail; Gizenga now was getting regular arms shipments from Cairo, trucked in overland via the Sudan. To the south, Lumumbaman Anicet Kashamura clung to Kivu province, where his troops stole cars and gasoline from white businessmen. Eight hapless Belgian soldiers, captured after they had wandered across the border from the protectorate of Ruanda-Urundi, were forced to kneel and submit to public beating...
...there were no more jokes about the tower's rock and roll. Its men called it "Old Shaky," and the gag was grim with fear. All the talk was about getting ashore. In letters home, and in calls via Air Force radio, their growing terror spread to their families. Fortnight ago, Civilian Engineer Eddie Robertson spoke to his wife Margaret in Medford, Mass. TT-4's legs were badly damaged, he told her. "They're trying to take us off." Back of her husband's words, Margaret Robertson heard "a loud crunching," as if the tower...