Word: winter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cinemascope Production. Israeli farmers got a panoramic view of the battle from slit trenches near the river. They called it "a Cinemascope production." The broad Beisan valley, green with ripening winter crops and blossoming trees, was painted with countless columns of rising black smoke. Israeli planes dive-bombed Jordanian positions, then wheeled west into the sun to confound the aim of Arab anti aircraft gunners. The village of Tel el-Arbain, an El Fatah commando base, was in flames. A Jordanian oil dump near the river burned an ominous red far into the night...
Spring came to Peking last week, bringing crocuses to the Imperial Pal ace gardens and Mao-jacketed revolutionaries back into the streets. After a long and severe winter, the city echoed again to the feet of 100,000 mass marchers, who tromped around for two days straight chanting insults at the lat est round of "ambitious right-wingers" - the term invariably used against the enemies of Chairman Mao Tse-tung. This time, there was one significant change. The targets of the taunts, far from being right-wingers, were three top lieutenants of Lin Piao, China's leftist Defense Minister...
...customers trooping into his salon at 24 Via Gregoriana, led by Jackie Kennedy, who these days seldom buys from anybody else. More important, he improves with age; each Valentino collection strikes fashion editors as better than the last. When he showed his spring and summer clothes in Rome this winter, he declared them "the best I've ever done" and nobody in attendance would gainsay the king of Rome. Cried Vogue: "He has become the idol of the young, a new symbol of modern luxury...
This past winter, at their monastery near St. Louis, the Roman Catholic Redemptorist Fathers put into operation an electronic data-processing service de signed to provide "a 71-facet view of each practicing Catholic." Pastors who want to make use of the service must distribute a questionnaire to their faithful, then wait for the Redemptorists to feed the answers into an IBM System 360 computer. The 180-page printout that the machine delivers gives the pastor a cybernetic summary of his parishioners' religious attitudes...
...Next winter the club may compete against freshman teams in the Boston area or against other New England colleges with new teams. It will be some time before Harvard will be ready to compete against the established Ivy League teams, Landau said...