Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days he tried to hitch a plane ride to the Biafran battle zone. Finally, he talked himself onto a decrepit DC-4 that took him to Port Harcourt. Along with CBS correspondent Morley Safer and 20 federal troops, Priya went looking for action. On a road outside Owerri, Biafran soldiers opened up from ambush, and Priya was hit in the arm and back. Safer and some of the Nigerian troopers carried him to an aid station, but he died an hour later...
Emblems of Service. In drafting his statement on Viet Nam, Humphrey chose his words with excruciating care. He went through seven drafts of the speech, taped it six times before he was satisfied. James Rowe, a Humphrey campaign aide and a factotum for Democratic administrations since the New Deal, said the wording of the crucial paragraphs "must have been changed 300 to 400 times." When he was ready, Humphrey made certain that the vice-presidential seal and flag-emblems of his service to Lyndon Johnson-were nowhere in sight. "I wanted to speak as Hubert H. Humphrey, candidate for President...
...hapless focus of conservative unrest over court decisions on pornography and the rights of criminal suspects. The attack developed into an assault on the whole Warren court, impairing its prestige severely in the process (see THE LAW). Last week the nomination that once looked like a sure thing went down to an embarrassing defeat...
...Alexander Dubček, it seemed to be a somewhat more pleasant journey to Moscow than his last one-when he went as a virtual prisoner of Soviet commanders who had invaded his country a few days earlier. Instead of being whisked secretly onto an airplane, Dubček last week chatted amiably in the Prague airport lounge with a group of his Czechoslovak colleagues. They had come to see Dubček, Premier Oldřich Cerník and Deputy Premier Gustav Husák off for another round of talks in the Kremlin. But throughout the pleasantries...
...went. The demonstrators did their best to drown him out, and they began shouting before he could complete each of his well-known lines. But the candidate stayed calm and collected, and his friends in the audience matched all the boos with cheers. After the demonstrators drowned out his passage about running over anarchists, he started to play with them...