Word: crackers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brown was arrested in Alexandria, Va., on a fugitive warrant, charged by Maryland with inciting to riot and arson. That rap could get Rap up to 20 years in jail. Released on $10,000 bond, Brown compulsively continued to shoot off his mouth. Damning Lyndon Johnson for sending "honky*cracker federal troops into Negro communities to kill black people," Brown called the President "a wild mad dog, an outlaw from Texas." He told Washington audiences: "Violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie. If you give me a gun and tell me to shoot my enemy, I might...
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Dan Briggs (Steven Hill) heads the four-man Impossible Mission Force. This week, with the help of a safe cracker (Wally Cox), they smuggle two nuclear warheads out of a Latin American dictator's heavily guarded vault. Premiere...
...Puffs for Pastors. Born on a Penn sylvania farm, S. S. Kresge started as a salesman of pots and pans, became fascinated by the way his friends Frank Woolworth and John McCrory were overturning the old cracker-barrel retail concepts with their low-price, high-volume retail stores. In 1897, he gambled his $8,000 savings on a similar shop in Memphis. On the way up, Kresge pioneered in giving his employees sick pay and paid vacations, in 1925 was the first to discard the strict nickel-and-dime rule, began offering goods from 250 to $1 as well...
...Fiftysix years' anticipation, burning jealousy and feverish curiosity," groused the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune, deserved more than "this peep show," this "cocktail cracker thrown to a hungry lion...
...down the next block. It is Christmas Eve, and a spat is in progress. That is what the play is, an interminable family spat. The three boys, or brats, want Daddy's crown, and they sulk and scream over it as if it were the prize in the Cracker Jack box. Daddy wants Mommy's booming piece of real estate -Aquitaine...