Word: whiting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Before he took the job, Bobby Kennedy talked at length with outgoing Attorney General William Rogers and an old friend. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. His first act as a prospective Cabinet member was to announce his brother's appointment of Denver Lawyer Byron ("Whizzer") White, 43, University of Colorado All-America, Rhodes scholar and veteran Kennedy campaign worker, as Assistant Attorney General...
Flagged Spires. Suddenly, the Moslems' long restraint snapped. Screaming like men who have been too long silent, Moslem mobs flooded the narrow lanes of the casbah. From under thin mattresses and floor boards came hundreds of forbidden flags of the F.L.N. rebels-green-and-white banners bearing a red crescent and star. In bright green paint, slogans were splashed on any and every convenlent wall: "The F.L.N. Forever," "Long Live Ferhat Abbas," "Long Live Moslem Algeria...
Defiant Orphans. In Algiers and Oran and Bóne, 127 Moslems died and hundreds more were wounded. European gangs joined in the hunt and dropped stray Moslems with pistols and iron bars. But still the green-and-white flags waved, and the Moslem crowds, scattered by police charges, re-formed as soon as the police withdrew. From rooftops and windows, Moslem women cheered on their men with high-pitched cries of "Yu! Yu! Yu!" One woman shouted at a group of paratroops: "Cowards! You were thrown out of Indo-China, you were thrown out of Tunisia, you were thrown...
...biggest royal wedding Europe had seen since Britain's Elizabeth married the nephew of Constantine, onetime King of Greece. On hand in white tie and diamonds were five kings, four queens and 46 princes and princesses. "Like the old fairy tales," gushed a U.S. newshen. There were monarchs from the egalitarian kingdoms of Norway and The Netherlands, and out-of-season princelings and grand dukes from the royal boneyards of Lisbon and Estoril. From Britain came Princess Margaret and her commoner husband, Antony Armstrong-Jones; Tony wore elevator shoes to make himself taller than she is, and drew more...
Changing Flags. For three days the battle lines shifted. Desertions were commonplace and simple to effect; a soldier of uncertain mind had only to change the red arm band of the Kong Le faction for the white band of General Phoumi. Anxious to please, shopkeepers waved red or white flags as the tide of battle wavered...