Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thai buildup has been predictably violent. Terrorists have murdered 24 "police agents" in recent weeks, and when Thai cops clashed with a terrorist band near Ubon early this month, they found expended cartridges of Communist Chinese and Bulgarian manufacture. Most of the Red terrorism has been concentrated in the wild northeast provinces of Thailand, which lie near Communist-controlled areas of Laos...
Schirra, theoretically just nine days away from the launching of his own Gemini 6, was by far the most relaxed of the group. He was the only one without a certain wild-eyed look that seems to reflect the two-sided nature of the astronaut's world--half survival training in the desert and half telling college editors at cocktail parties what it's like to have been in space...
Other obsolete missiles lay around on the ground, waiting for the Air Force to build a museum to house them--a Snark, like the air-breathing monster that ran wild over South America and landed in a jungle in Brazil; a Skybolt; a Minuteman model, slim, looking like three bullets, glued one on top of the other...
...failure of Bay of the Angels is emphasized by the excellent short which preceds it. Lonely Boy, a 15-minute documentary on Paul Anka, displays the singer's world with wild irony. Interviews are shot full in the face, with quick cuts to the hands or facial features to support a verbal point. (Anke's manager: "The boy is great, simply great. We haven't seen such a talent in five hundred years." Anka: "I'm just using the talent I was given to make people happy.") The shots of Anka's performances are superb: a focus on the singer...
Harvard's basketball team has surprised even the wild-eyed optimists among Crimson fans. The team opened its season with a 91-82 win over New Hampshire, then beat Holy Cross...