Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...full force, winding up coverage of the California primary, and most staffers-about 500-were within walkie-talkie range of the Ambassador Hotel. ABC was just running sign-off credits for its election team at 12:17 a.m. when the shots cracked out. NBC's Los Angeles anchor desk, though broadcasting election news right along, did not report the shooting until 12:26. The CBS network had already signed off, and most of its affiliated stations were carrying late movies. At CBS New York headquarters, key staffers were relaxing across the street at their hangout...
Huvelle also snatched off the coveted William P. Grady Relay Anchor Award for his anchor leg in the mile relay during the Dartmouth meet, when he was nosed out in the stretch by an obscure Dartmouth pole vaulter...
Only eight miles south of the Demilitarized Zone, Dong Ha is the eastern anchor of the entire allied defense line facing North Viet Nam. Across the DMZ, in a swift three-day thrust, Hanoi sent its crack 320th Division to audaciously launch its first division-sized attack of the war. The Communist troops took up positions on the Cua Viet River two miles from Dong Ha, ambushed a U.S. Navy supply ship, and waited for the Marines to respond. They did at once, pouring in five companies to engage the North Vietnamese in the village...
...beaches or around hotel pools. But after dark, Bermuda took on a new atmosphere. Everyone was ordered off the streets, and soldiers threw up barbed-wire barricades. Extra police patrolled the downtown area. Lights blinked late on the newly arrived British troop frigate, H.M.S. Leopard, which bobbed at anchor in a Front Street berth normally reserved for cruise ships. Thus last week Britain's oldest colony uneasily approached its May 22 elections, the first in the island's 284-year history in which everyone over 21-both Negro and white-will be allowed to vote...
Princeton will provide the stronger competition of the two rivals, but should not be anything serious. Five returning lettermen anchor the Tiger boat, and Princeton will benefit from its recent recruiting of high school oarsmen...