Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...planes, an F-4D Phantom fighter bomber and a C-141 jet transport fitted for medical evacuation. In the confusing half-hour firefight that ensued, a Thai guard was killed and four Americans were wounded, one critically. Two guerrillas were killed and two were captured. Following the Udorn attack, all other bases in Thailand were put on full alert, and U.S. base security guards, previously armed only with pistols, were issued M-16 rifles...
...antic conglomeration of bumps, bulges and concavities of the Morris Mechanic Theater in Baltimore fairly shouts that the play's the thing?and also divulges stair towers and mechanical equipment spaces. With its fortress style, the Boston city hall states another simple truth: that city governments are under constant attack...
Died. Giovanni Guareschi, 60, Italy's most popular political humorist, whose tales of Don Camillo, a village priest forever at swordspoint with his Red mayor, gave readers throughout the world a taste of Communism, Italian style; of a heart attack; in Cervia, Italy. With gentle wit and nimble satire, in five novels, Guareschi illuminated a curiously Italian phenomenon-the Catholic who prays in church but pays his dues to the Party-all to the delight of readers in 16 languages...
Died. Agnes Morgan, 84, professor of nutrition at the University of California (Berkeley) from 1915 to 1954 and the food expert who made vitamin a household word in the U.S.; of a heart attack; in Berkeley. In the early 1920s she pushed the idea that a vitamin a day might keep the doctor away, showed that grey hair can be caused by vitamin deficiency and that overcooking reduces the nutritional value of meat. In all, she authored more than 150 papers on nutrition and tested virtually every popular diet except, she once cracked, "the drinking man's diet...
Died. Ruth St. Denis, 90, grande dame of modern dance, whose foresight and inspiration helped change the U.S. from a choreographic wasteland to what is today one of the world's foremost centers of dance; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Starting with classical ballet in 1893, Ruth St. Denis freed it from its formal strictures and blended it with Indian and other Asian dance forms until she produced something uniquely her own. In 1915, with husband Ted Shawn, she formed the Denishawn School and company, from whose ranks sprang such stars as Doris Humphrey and Martha Graham...