Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...position as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. Lyndon Johnson has lined up his whole Cabinet, the Federal Reserve Board and battalions of bankers, businessmen and economists behind the tax bill. But standing against this seemingly irresistible tide is Wilbur the Willful, an immovable sea wall...
...most embarrassing-occurred when 19 Viet Cong commandos of the C-10 Sapper Battalion made the U.S. embassy their target. When Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker opened the white reinforced-concrete complex last September, few American missions ever settled into more seemingly impregnable quarters. Looming behind a lO-ft.-high wall, the six-story symbol of U.S. power and prestige is encased in a massive concrete sunscreen that overlaps shatterproof Plexiglas windows. The $2.6 million building contains such an array of fortresslike features that Saigon wags soon dubbed it "Bunker's Bunker." Yet the Viet Cong attackers gained access...
...troops positioned around the embassy began lobbing mortar fire onto the grounds. Then the 19 commandos appeared, wearing civilian clothes (with identifying red armbands) and carrying automatic weapons, rockets and enough high explosives to demolish the building. Attacking simultaneously, some of the guerrillas blasted a hole in the concrete wall with an antitank gun and swarmed through it; others quickly scaled a rear fence. Though allied intelligence had predicted the attack, the embassy's defense consisted of only five U.S. military guards-just one more than normal. They fought back so fiercely that only their courage denied the enemy...
...Israel inflated interest at Manhattan's Whitney Museum with an immense sausage-shaped bubble of clear vinyl that wallowed about an entire, blue-spotlit room. Even Louise Nevelson, the Marianne Moore of modern American sculpture, has won new fans with a current exhibit consisting of the famed Nevelson wall constructions done no longer in wood but in clear Plexiglas...
...west bank, in which about 300,000 soldiers and civilians lost their lives. For its commemoration, the city has a statue of a bosomy Mother Russia waving a sword, which rises 170 feet above the Mamaev Hill, where some of the fiercest fighting raged. Farther down the hill, a wall bears the inscription: "Iron wind beat them in the face, but they still went forward...