Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Winfield, a strong Crimson contender for an all-Ivy sabre slot, outclassed all three of his Brandeis opponents. Tony Abbott won one match and lost two, as did Bob Barnard. Backing away from his man. Barnard smashed into and shattered a six-foot mirror on the wall...
...Isere, 6,037 ft. up in the French Alps. Jean-Claude was then three; within a year, he was a familiar figure, with baggy pants and a runny nose, on the slopes outside town. "I would carry my skis to school and rest them against the wall so I could ski at lunchtime," he says. "On Thursday mornings, when we were all supposed to go to catechism, we would go skiing instead. The priest would ski out after us. He was a wonderful sight, in his full robes, as he chased us down the mountain...
...society, Galbraith has spent a good half of his time in recent months focusing on the single issue of Viet Nam. He has promoted his plan for de-escalation on TV, held forth from college platforms across the country, argued his case in publications as diverse as the Wall Street Journal and Playboy. His How to Get Out of Viet Nam, a 47-page, 350 broadside, has gone through a printing of 250,000. As national chairman of the liberal, 50,000-member Americans for Democratic Action, he has helped push the group to the brink of a possibly irreparable...
Gradually, the battling turned the once beautiful city into a nightmare. Hué's streets were littered with dead. A black-shirted Communist soldier sprawled dead in the middle of a road, still holding a hand grenade. A woman knelt in death by a wall in the corner of her garden. A child lay on the stairs, crushed by a fallen roof. Many of the bodies had turned black and begun to decompose, and rats gnawed at the exposed flesh...
...from Wall Street, a relatively small mutual fund last year put some of the East's established giants to shame. Enterprise Fund of Los Angeles registered a 116.9% gain in net assets. Among the 20 best mutual-fund per formers for five years, Enterprise really started moving when soft-spoken Fred Carr, 36, took over its management in October 1966: under his guidance, the fund's assets have increased from less than $20 million to $250 million, and the value of a share has jumped from $3.77 to over...