Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Whatever else they may differ about, Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator Jack Kennedy agree that U.S. farmers have big crop problems-and a big crop of votes. So far, neither candidate has offered any convincing solution for farmers' problems, but both have eagerly set about trying to harvest the votes...
Watching her husband over the years, Selby's wife Wilma found out about his other life. As he told it afterwards, she was forever suspecting him, inspected him nightly for telltale lipstick, once threatened to kill him. Instead, early last year, methodical Accountant Joseph Selby set out to hire somebody to kill Wilma...
...hope of finding his son alive faded away, Hester set up a marble urn in his backyard in Los Angeles as a memorial to Bob and his fellow crewmen. "The war will never end for us," he wrote to the parents of the lost B-24's pilot. He bought a parcel of land near Lone Pine, built a house there. "Now I won't have to go so far to look for Bob," he said...
From steamy Léopoldville, five top officers from the new Congo government, leaving chaos behind, came racing across the Atlantic toward Manhattan. In the skyscraping U.N. building on the East River, international bureaucrats hurriedly set the stage for an emergency meeting of the Security Council. At the very moment that U.N. troops had seemingly restored stability to the Congo (see below), the intractable problems of that turbulent land flared into new crisis...
...decree that stores and factories must reopen by August 8 or be confiscated. Reports of continuing tribal warfare among the Baluba and Lulua in the Kasai interior hardly ruffled Léopoldville's street crowds. Here and there local commanders of the Congo's restive Force Publique set up as semi-independent potentates. One Sabena pilot on a routine flight to Stanleyville suddenly heard on his radio the voice of the "commander of the Fifth Bicycle Battalion" warning sternly, "Do not violate my air space again or I'll shoot you down!" But in the 47 regional...