Word: thing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...liked the issue because it agreed with what I think. This is partly true; but, much more, you hit every good sidelight on the head, as well as describing the broad flow of the election itself. To do this as shrewdly and entertainingly as you did is one thing; to collect, edit, write, print and distribute the whole thing in little over a day is tremendous...
...very much moved by your Oct. 31 story of Mark Higgins and his death in the Congo. He did a brave and wonderful thing in refusing to accept the "set pattern" by choosing to work in Africa with Missionary Albert Schweitzer...
...Deep. By week's end it was apparent that New Orleans would be no Little Rock. For one thing, Jimmie Davis and his legislature, perhaps mindful of Little Rock, did not care to back their last-ditch segregation laws with National 'Guard power, and after flare-ups of violence they began calling for moderation. For another, New Orleans' 1,073-man police force, firmly directed by Mayor Morrison and his youthful (37) Chief Joseph Giarrusso, held the violence in check, gave Davis little justification for moving in with emergency troops. Davis actually had little support among...
...Moroccan armed services. Accordingly, the prince called in Moscow's balloon-faced Dmitry Pozhidaev, who for weeks had been heavily hinting that Russia wants to aid Morocco "in all spheres." And on the day of the great parade, Moulay Hassan was able to unveil the next best thing to a new air force: a Russian promise to supply Morocco with an undisclosed number of MIGs and Ilyushins within a few months...
...inhabitant of the Towers, though not by choice. The best thing I can say about them is that they house some hundreds of students. This they do in a functional, utilitarian manner that would be perfectly acceptable at Florida State, but that is entirely amiss at Harvard...