Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Surprise attack undoubtedly has its advantages . . . However, the opportunity of an answering blow remains. [Thus] nuclear war is not only extraordinarily dangerous for the victim, but it is also suicide for the aggressor himself." ¶ "Local wars were possible [in past centuries] . . . War, in reality, has become either a prelude to world war, or, in its own way, the end of world...
Uneasy Consciences. Approaching 70, De Gaulle is showing the strain of gathering burdens-in red-rimmed eyes sunk deep into their sockets, in the sagging greyness of flesh on his jowls, in the thickness of his voice. He is under the sharpest attack since he returned to power in 1958. In trying to settle the Algeria problem, he has not finally quelled the discontent in the restive army, and now pressures are rising in France-from political parties, trade unions and intellectuals-to start political and military talks with the Algerians at once, without waiting, as De Gaulle once insisted...
Outraged by the beating, the Guatemalan Press Association demanded an immediate investigation, while El Impartial, a leading daily, saw it as "an attack on the freedom of expression." But last week President Ydigoras refused to comment, and by week's end the poker-faced Interior Ministry still dismissed the whole thing as just "a street incident...
...Brownlee, 69, business executive (American Sugar Refining, General Foods, Frankfort Distilleries) and investment banker (Manhattan's J. H. Whitney & Co.), Acting OPAdministrator in 1945, chairman of the Ford Foundation's Advisory Committee, co-founder of the National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools; of a heart attack; at his home in Fairfield, Conn. Soft-spoken Harvardman Brownlee ('13) got his start as a sugar salesman, then turned his talents to whisky (Four Roses'), gradually gravitated to public service and became a top authority on economic controls...
Died. His Highness Seyyid Sir Khalifa bin Harub, G.C.B.. G.C.M.G., G.B.E., the Sultan of Zanzibar, 81, who had reigned over Britain's East African island protectorate since 1911; of a heart attack; in his royal palace. One of the most benign of small-time despots, the British-admiring Sultan was highly regarded by the quarter-million inhabitants of his spice isle, most of them Moslem blacks known as "God's Poor," the rest chiefly higher-class Arabs descended from conquerors of yore...