Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bulganin; he reported the visit that drew world attention to Mr. K., vodka for vodka. Later, when Khrushchev made the sensational but top-secret Kremlin speech that demolished Stalin, Bell was in Moscow and got wind of it. During two tours of duty in Bonn, he covered the Berlin Wall, the 1956 Hungarian uprising, and matters as disparate as what Chancellor Adenauer was thinking and what the German burgher was eating...
...village chief. A dozen "Viet Cong" defenders-infantry troops who have completed their training and are awaiting assignment to Viet Nam-wear black pajamas and conical peasant hats. Underneath the village snakes a maze of tunnels that connect each hut to a passageway leading under the village wall. When the trainees attack, some villagers usually slip into the tunnels to get away; those who are captured and interrogated try to convince their captors that they are loyal peasants...
Business is generally brisk. In the 1964 Crosby, Arnold Palmer dumped three balls in the drink, took nine strokes to get down on the par-three, 217-yd. 17th. In 1959, Gene Littler needed only a par five on the 535-yd. 18th to tie Art Wall for the title; he hooked his second shot into the water, wound up with a double-bogey seven. Of course, there have been days when the 18th played easier; a San Franciscan named Mat Palacio once hit a drive in the general direction of China and muttered, "Only God can save that...
...satisfactory result rate is 51 % . One reason for the difference between his record and Hitchcock's, said Dr. Wangensteen, is that his team now uses liquid that is supercooled to - 40°F. when it enters the tube on its way to the stomach. This chills the stomach wall itself for six or seven minutes to 13°F.-far below freezing. Then the stomach is quickly rewarmed...
Threadbare Tires. A onetime editor of the Daily Princetonian, Ridgeway, 29, put in a stint on the Wall Street Journal before coming to the New Republic. He makes sure that he ge'ts his facts correct and avoids the doctrinaire "New Left" politics that fills much of the rest of the magazine. "I don't think things should be cast in black and white," he says. "These subjects are complicated and difficult to get at. What I want to do is take a point of view that is unreported and provide people with that different perspective...