Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their word. In Harlem, less than 36 hours after the murder, a fire bomb tossed from an adjacent rooftop through an upper window of the Black Muslims' Mosque No. 7 sent flames shooting 30 feet into the night sky, gutted the building. Six firemen were hurt when a wall caved in, and 320 cops rushed to Harlem from three boroughs under a "rapid mobilization" order after the alarm was sounded. In San Francisco, another mosque was set ablaze, but firemen quickly doused...
...Italy's Walter Bonatti, 34: the first successful direttissima-straight up-ascent of the 14,701-ft. Matterhorn's north wall; in Switzerland. Two days after 60 m.p.h. winds forced Bonatti and two friends to abandon a similar assault, he was back on the mountain, alone, inching up the ice-covered rock that leans slightly from the perpendicular (TIME, Feb. 26). It was four days before he finally staggered onto the summit, briefly embraced a wrought-iron cross, then started the descent to Zermatt and a hero's welcome...
...growing con viction that U.S. business can roll forward without pause in 1965. The buoyant mood was apparent in Washington, where some of the nation's leading economists, testifying before the Joint Congressional Economic Committee, almost unanimously predicted uninterrupted expansion. The bullish sentiment was obvious on Wall Street, where the stock market rebounded strongly from last month's fall. In the second heaviest trading in more than a year (7,100,000 shares in one day), the Dow-Jones industrial average rose every day, climbing 18 points to a near-record...
...center in Lourenco Marques, Siguake was forced to watch the fatal beating of a friend, then to carry the friend's bloody body in a sack out for burial. Because he was known outside the country, the police were afraid to kill him, but they stood him facing a wall for six days of questions until he collapsed in pain and was hospitalized for a month...
...captain Bryce Appleton, who won to last year, met his match this year as Terry Robinson (three) dazzled and the gallery with a complete of shots. Twice he baffled with the "Philadelphian," a tricky which the ball ends up going to the back wall. Robinson...