Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Writing on the Wall...
...Many articles have been written about South Africa and apartheid, but none as searching and balanced as your cover story "The Great White Laager" [Aug. 26]. As a patriotic but very anti apartheid white South African, I hope your story will serve as the writing on the wall for the thousands of my fellow white South Africans who will no doubt read it. Perhaps the greatest tragedy in South Africa is that there are so many sensible white South Africans who turn a deliberately blind eye to one of history's saddest, most inhuman situations...
Truman's words fell like thunder claps on banks and stock markets from Wall Street to Tokyo, but their impact was most pronounced in Washington-particularly on the man in the White House. Lyndon Johnson is something of a Populist who agrees with Truman that money should be easier. But-as with so many other things lately-he has done nothing to offset the rising rates except talk about them. Truman's prodding stung him sharply. "I, too, am concerned about the interest-rate rise and what it means to many Americans," protested the President, but he denied...
...rapprochement between the Communists and the Nationalists. Now a division commander, Lin made his debut against the Japanese the high point of his military career: at dawn on Sept. 25, 1937, Lin's men ambushed the Japanese Itagaki Division in the shadow of the Great Wall. The defeat is still recalled with awe in the bars of the Ginza, where former Japanese officers recognize Lin as a master tactician...
...prison favorite was a Trappist monk who was caught smuggling 150 eggs into the compound under the prison wall. Sentenced to 45 days in solitary, he took the punishment lightly, since as a monk he was used to long and lonely meditations. Still another prison saint was Dick Rogers, a former British soldier. An alcoholic, he proved to be virtually the only man who could be trusted to guard the communal food store without stealing anything for himself. Nonetheless, writes Gilkey, "Many a pious diner, whose ration of food depended on Dick's strength of character, still thought...