Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DISCOVERY '66 (ABC, ll:30-noon). "Discovery Goes to West Berlin" to talk with German children from the bilingual John F. Kennedy School on their reactions to the Wall, their thoughts about Nazi Germany and their views of Germany's future. Repeat...
...lawmen sent hundreds of rounds of small-arms fire crackling toward the tower deck. A few smashed into the faces on the clocks above Whitman, and most pinked ineffectually into the four-foot-high wall in front of him, kicking up puffs of dust. Ducking below the wall, Whitman began using narrow drainage slits in the wall as gunports. He proved almost impossible to hit, but he kept finding targets?to the north, where he wounded two students on their way to the Biology Building; to the east, where he nicked a girl sitting at a window in the Business...
...village of Huai Fuang near the Laos border, last week about 50 students sat in crisp regulation white shirts and khaki shorts in an open, thatched-roof classroom, learning to read and count from a border policeman whose platoon had supplied the class uniforms and haircuts. On the wall behind the teacher were three objects that symbolized the new presence: a Thai flag, a picture of Thailand's King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit and a picture of the Lord Buddha. The police had even directed the building of a network of bamboo pipes to carry fresh water into every...
...from Feb. 9's peak of 995.15. The Big Board's new flattened-out index (TIME, July 22) slipped one point to 45.29, or 2%. The Dow-Jones rail average also hit a 1966 low of 220.26, a fact that immediately led some pessimists to recall a Wall Street adage to the effect that when industrials and rails establish new lows in tandem, it is a sure sign of a bear market...
Stock investors are therefore nervous -as witness the fact that even the mutual funds were staying relatively clear of Wall Street. According to second-quarter reports, the mutuals have some $2.3 billion waiting to be invested. This represents about 61% of their assets in cash and marketable securities, the highest ratio since...