Word: waking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quarrel with the U.S., were oddly silent about his proposal. U.S. diplomats throughout Latin America reported a sharp shift in the attitude toward Adlai Stevenson's impending hemisphere tour. There had been warnings that he might provoke riots if he ventured south of the border in the wake of the Cuban fiasco; the climate for his visit has improved noticeably, and his trip has been confirmed by the U.S. Stevenson's mission: to sound out prospects for joint inter-American action to cope with Castro...
...Shah seems aware that something must be done. In the wake of two elections so blatantly rigged that he was forced to cancel them, he fired three key men of his immediate entourage. One of the first to go was Secret Police Chief General Teymour Bakhtiar, 48, who had built himself an ostentatious mansion near the Shah's own palace. Then there was General Ali Kia, 53, chief of army intelligence, who built a block of luxury apartments that Teheranis had taken to calling the Where-Did-You-Get-It-From Building. Purged also was Minister of the Interior...
...freshman contest the Crimson jumped to an early lead to leave second-place Princeton more than two lengths in their wake as they crossed the wire in 6:56. Yale finished third, a length behind the Tigers...
Still riding high in the Vostok's astral wake, Soviet scientists last week filled a few more gaps in the official description of Space Traveler Yuri Gagarin's 89-minute trip around the world...
Sorrowfully, Jackie Gleason heaved himself upright and looked at Gene Kelly. The two are in Paris trying to film a movie called Gigot, about a lovable deaf-mute bum whose best friend is an alley cat. In the first scene, the cat is supposed to hear an alarm clock, wake up, and then rouse his deaf ami by licking his face. But the first dozen Parisian alley cats had flunked their screen tests. Gleason, who plays Gigot, swabbed off the sardine oil and discussed things with Actor-Director Kelly. Importing trained cats from Hollywood would cost almost...