Word: banners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intent of the measure had somehow been overlooked in the patriotic talkfest. Though it had originally been framed as a response to the burning of a U.S. flag in Manhattan's Central Park last May, the bill as passed covered "publicly mutilating, defacing, defiling or trampling upon" the banner but did not in fact mention the act of flag flammation. That form of desecration will doubtless be reproscribed, with appropriate oratory, in the Senate...
...Vernon, Calif., drove a Duesenberg to victory at Le Mans at an average speed of 78.1 m.p.h. in the French Grand Prix. The second time was last week-in the fastest Grand Prix ever run. At Spa-Francorchamps, deep in the Ardennes Forest of eastern Belgium, The Star-Spangled Banner blared out over loudspeakers after California's Dan Gurney, 36, in a Formula I American Eagle, averaged 145.67 m.p.h. to win the Belgian Grand Prix...
...Lichtenstein's satiric cast overlooked pop itself. His Pistol, a banner made of felt, pokes fun at his fellow-cultists' ideals. Says he: "It is an exaggeration of a menacing, dangerous painting, a cliché describing modern painting done to an excessive degree, a play on the idea of a painting having a strong presence...
...their success seldom occur simultaneously. Such wars have succeeded only where the guerrillas have seized both the mantle of social revolutionary or reformer and that of nationalist hero who drove out the foreigner--as in Yugoslavia, China, Algeria and Vietnam. Where guerrillas have been unable to capture the banner of nationalism--either because of ethnic problems, as in Malaya, or because of the absence of a foreign invader, as in Burma and the Philippines--they have failed...
Scores of people were hospitalized and arrested as a result of the violence, which left a series of charges and countercharges in its wake. Negroes criticized the police for starting the violence by beating the demonstrators; Roxbury's Bay State Banner printed a headline reading "Police Riot in Grove Hall..." Whites, from Richard Cardinal Cushing to Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, criticized the Negroes for their lack of restraint...