Word: witching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon to proclaim an end to chaos. In secessionist Katanga, Baluba tribesmen rose in bloody revolt in the tin-mining town of Manono after police broke up a demonstration by tossing a hand grenade that killed two tribesmen. Anointed by a witch doctor with a potion that supposedly made them immune to bullets, the Balubas fearlessly charged a police barricade, hurling spears, shooting arrows, firing old muzzle-loaders filled with nuts and bolts. Police fire cut down 35 Balubas, while two police were killed...
...Comedian Jonathan Winters, however, gave a memorable performance as Lord General Nikidik, fulfilling a confessed Winters' dream from boyhood days when he wanted to become a general (to no one at all, young Johnny would shout repeatedly, "The rest of you are privates"). Agnes Moorehead, a suitably grating witch, all but punctured the screen with her cockney accent, and Sterling Holloway, as Jack Pumpkinhead, cried seeds instead of tears. Hostess Temple herself, whose new series will include such additional material as Winnie-the-Pooh and Kim, played-within her limitations -both Princess Ozma and the boy Tip. She turned...
Died. Edith Nourse Rogers, 79, Republican Massachusetts Congresswoman f°r 35 years, a descendant of a Salem witch and longtime legislative champion of armed service veterans; of a heart attack; in Boston...
Equal to What. Doyennes of Congress in 1960 are Massachusetts' Edith Nourse Rogers, descendant of a Salem witch, who has served 35 years in the House, a record surpassed by no other woman and only nine men; and Ohio's Frances Bolton, a wealthy Clevelander, expert on African affairs (the pages call her "the African Queen"), a yoga devotee (she stands on her head every day) and an anti-feminist ("I'm not particularly anxious to be equal to a lot of things men think are so important"). Gracie Pfost, a freckle-faced Congresswoman from Idaho, represents...
...nervous breakdown. Mr. Druce himself, suspecting that Dougal is a police informer in alliance with Merle Coverdale, kills his mistress by stabbing her nine times with a corkscrew. Dougal at about that time flees Peckham Rye for Africa, where he makes a living selling portable tape recorders to witch doctors...