Word: 5th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that it was given on July 5th was not the only unusual feature of last week's Independence Day concert on the hangar deck of the carrier Independence off Cannes, The ship's jet engine noise absorbers were so effective that the music of the Monte Carlo Opera Orchestra had to be amplified. And the ventilators made such a racket that they had to be turned off, leaving Conductor Louis Frémaux and Guest Soprano Teresa Stich-Randall to dissolve in perspiration...
...aurora borealis shining in the night of early medieval Christendom." Arms, Not Argument. In dealing with its heretics. Nigg argues, the church too often substituted force of arms for force of argument. Perhaps the first theologian to defend strong-arm methods was St. Augustine. In one debate with some 5th century heretics, he lost his temper, abandoned his arguments from Scripture and announced the terrible principle: Cogite intrare-compel them to enter. It was a fateful surrender to weakness that later Christians found most useful. In the 13th century battle to stamp out the Catharists of southern France, the church...
...began to explore the grounds around. The result: an archaeological bonanza that since 1948 has brought to light 6,000 objects and statues, to make up what Papadimitriou claims is the most complete and beautiful collection in the world of small works of Greek art dating from the 5th and 6th centuries...
...provides a safe Communist 50-mile "supply corridor from the Cambodian frontier to the province of Phuoc Thanh. As the first light of dawn slanted down through the thick forest in the district of Ben Cat, the truck column came to a dusty halt, 600 troops of the Vietnamese 5th Division poured over the tail gates and fanned out across the harvested rice fields and rubber plantations to flush out Communists. Typically, the Viet Cong faded away before the massive sweep...
...like the others in depending on U.S. funds for all its equipment, from medical supplies to schoolbooks. loudspeakers to farm tools. A U.S. military mission will recruit, train and arm a local militia to take over in three months when the 5th Division moves on to another area. If in that time administrative corruption has not canceled out the promised benefits, and if the standard of living is obviously higher, in all probability the peasant militiamen will fight to defend what they have. The Viet Cong last week gave clear indication of its own uneasiness at this new development...