Word: truckloads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Booby-Trapped Melons. The commandos were busy last week behind Israeli lines. In Hebron, a grenade was tossed into a truckload of sightseers. A bomb hidden in a paint can went off in Tel Aviv. A synagogue was blown up in Kfar Saba. In a Haifa market, a 17-year-old youth tugged at an odd-looking object embedded in a watermelon and triggered an explosion; police found several more booby-trapped melons near by. In all, terrorist action killed one and wounded 13. Against this background of violence, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir called for adherence to the cease...
Contributing Editor Robin Man-nock is no stranger to the more rigorous aspects of journalism. He covered the Congo fighting in 1964 and rode into Stanleyville with a truckload of mercenaries. His seat that night was a case of dynamite. More recently, Mannock did a stretch of war reporting in Viet Nam. But neither there nor in Africa, he says, was he ever in quite as much danger as he was in last week, while visiting Alaska. With the aid of TIME'S Anchorage Stringer, Joe Rychetnik, Mannock wangled his way into some winter war games...
...personality flaws, like those of some of his predecessors, will seem less significant a decade hence. Johnson, at least, is confident of history's favorable verdict, and will spend his remaining years buttressing his record. He talks of the personal papers that are flowing to Texas by the truckload. "I've got 31 million pages of material," he says, "more than any President in history." To the last, Johnson deals in superlatives. "People will look back on these five years as some of the most important in the nation's history," he insists. Of that, at least...
...machine-gun and bazooka size. Some came openly into the open city, weapons concealed in luggage or under baskets of food, riding buses, taxis and motor scooters, or walking. Others came furtively: some of the Viet Cong who attacked the U.S. embassy had ridden into town concealed in a truckload of flowers. Once in town, they hid their weapons. Only after the attack did Vietnamese intelligence realize that the unusual number of funerals the previous week was no accident: the Viet Cong had buried their weapons in the funeral coffins, dug them up on the night of the assault. They...
Women's Strike for Peace was there in strength, toting shopping bags with anti-Vietnam slogans. A whole truckload of small children sang folk songs under the slogan "Children are not for Burning." Of course, there were students--straight ones, too--from Washington University in St. Louis, from Indiana to Howard. One section of the parade was reserved for a thousand labor representatives...