Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Virginia, political fief of the late Harry Byrd for four decades, last week's Democratic primary elections indicated that the old Byrd machine might be rattling toward a final breakdown. Sidney Severn Kellam, a chief mechanic of the machine for 36 years, lost his political power base in the Norfolk area when five of the eight candidates supported by his organization for the state legislature and local offices were defeated by allies of Virginia's moderate U.S. Senator William Spong. With the power center of the Old Dominion's politics shifting inexorably from the county courthouses...
...using their men and arms with increasing versatility. Last week, in the course of a few days, they proved just how effective their range of tactics can be. In two cunningly prepared ambushes, they killed 69 Americans in the Central Highlands. In a rocket onslaught on the huge air base at Danang, they killed eight men and did about $80 million worth of damage to U.S. planes. And, in a guerrilla-style raid that they have honed to near perfection, they swarmed over the provincial prison camp in Quang Nam province and released 1,220 prisoners, most of them Viet...
...hopes of reducing its reliance on Government contracts, Flying Tiger, which has no regular overseas routes, has applied to the Civil Aeronautics Board to begin nonmilitary service to the Far East. Confident of getting the go-ahead, the company last year opened a new $4.5 million base in Los Angeles, also ordered ten of Douglas' new jumbo-size DC-8s to increase its long-haul capacity. With that expansion came the need to beef up top management...
...across a log and then pouring gunpowder on it. After months of experimenting, they discovered how to distill pure salt from sea water, then used the salt to preserve the meat of cows and wild pigs that they occasionally managed to kill. They kept an eye on the U.S. base -and on its garbage dump, which they sometimes raided for supplies. Using discarded tools and old tires, they fashioned round, oversized sandals that both protected their feet and ingeniously disguised their footprints. Deciding that a cave was too obvious a hiding place, they slept under rudimentary lean-tos in jungle...
...Confession has established a new way of doing and using theology in the church. The church has defined the task of confessional theology as "understanding the gospel." It has broadened the base of historic creeds, catechisms, and declarations to be used as guides to aid in that task, and thus made the discovery of what Presbyterians now believe is both more difficult and more interesting...