Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SEEN THE WIND? (ABC, 9:30-11 p.m.). This U.N. case history explores the plight of a family of stateless refugees who have spent twelve years on a freighter because no country will accept them. Maria Schell, Edward G. Robin son, Stanley Baker and Theodore Bikel are the stars...
While Westmoreland was commanding the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky., in 1958, he led a routine paratroop drop that turned to tragedy when the winds shifted. Five men were dragged to their death, one when the wind caught his grounded chute and swept him over a cliff. Westmoreland pitched in to help the wounded, from that day on refused to give the go-ahead for a drop until he had jumped first and had time to gauge the wind...
...Sambiase, a town of 12,000 at the tip of the Italian boot, a chilly wind whispers under the doors. The townspeople stare at each other meaningfully as a lonely dog howls in the hills. Then, with a roar of auto engines and a clatter of hoofbeats, Sambiase blows wide open. Bullets spray in all directions; a hand grenade booms against the wall of the police station. For 40 minutes the town rocks to gunfire and explosions before the attack recedes. At last police arrive from a nearby town. Is anything wrong? No, say the townspeople, nothing. Can anyone identify...
Shifting with the Wind. Canadians know Diefenbaker as a skilled politician, a superb speechmaker and campaigner. Preaching that one-party domination was bad for Canada, the persuasive prairie lawyer led his party to a surprising victory in 1957, breaking 22 years of Liberal rule. Yet in six years as Prime Minister he managed to get himself into a series of unnecessarily bitter squabbles with the U.S. over nuclear defense commitments, failed to fire up Canada's economy, and proved to be an imperious, eccentric administrator whose policies seemed to shift with the wind over Ottawa...
Breier. After getting wind of alleged police shenanigans-ticket fixing by cops and an after-hours party in a bowling alley that was heavily attended by blue uniforms-Sentinel newsmen sought out Chief Breier. His response was to refuse access to the departmental orders from which the reporters could have gathered the names of the offenders. That was last spring. The paper took the matter to court, where Breier's departmental records were ordered restored to public scrutiny...