Word: wands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saunders was choked to death in an alley in Boston's tough Roxbury section, and the city's fury knew no bounds. Police Commissioner Edmund L. McNamara appeared before a mass protest meeting and pleaded for understanding. Said he, sadly: "I wish I could wave a magic wand." In mid-January police arrested a 15-year-old boy who admitted strangling the Saunders girl because she had refused him a kiss; he could not possibly have been the Phantom Strangler...
...observers of the contemporary American musical scene, the Isley Brothers are generally regarded as the most significant contributors to twentieth century Western culture. Their two albums, Shout (RCA Victor, #LMP-2156) and Twist and Shout (Wand Records, #653) have rescued a sinking Rock and Roll culture in America and reshaped it; the Isley Brothers make Bill Haley look adolescent, Buddy Holly untalented, and Ray Charles pathetically tame...
Never on Sunday. Since the Church of England is an established church, each parish church is bound by law to hold Sunday services, whether anyone attends or not. But to former Bishop of London John Wand (now canon of St. Paul's) and London's Archdeacon Oswin Gibbs-Smith, a third possibility presented itself: "Why not a church that could be there for the daytime City workers?" Sixteen of the 40 churches were set up on a new basis and called "Guild Churches"-closed on Sundays, open on weekdays, with emphasis on the lunch hour. A number...
...Latin American nations, Mexico has waved the magic wand of land reform longest. Before the 1910 revolution, 97% of Mexico's farm land was held by 836 owners. Today 65% of the old haciendas have been divided into cooperatives, the rest given to small farmers. But now even in well-reformed Mexico, the need to feed a suddenly ballooning population grows daily-along with a peasant land hunger fanned by the propaganda of Fidel Castro...
...FLEET MODERNIZATION. "We cannot go on hoping that someone is going to wave a magic fiscal wand to modernize our aging fleet. We must find ways to build ships more cheaply, while at the same time expressing our needs more clearly. Perhaps the answer lies in less sophisticated ships-or more ships of exactly similar design. We cannot hope to embody in each ship and aircraft all of the improvements that our technical laboratories can dream up. If we did so, a ship would never go to sea, because our technical progress is neverending. We must consider the cost...