Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...welcomed exclusively by souls like us, imbued with the spirit of human kindness. In the event of a hegira from his high-ceilinged mansion to this land of canvas canopies, we would ask him in his magnanimity to overlook the selfish taunts of privates earning $83.30 base pay per month with wife and children back in the States. I trust he'll excuse these impetuous youths for not understanding modern patriotism. Our best to Mr. Namath also...
...what was clearly one of the major battles for U.S. forces to date, Bill Carpenter was at the head of a company that was pinned down and heavily outnumbered by a North Vietnamese regiment. After calmly reviewing what seemed to be a hopeless situation, he radioed his base camp for bombing and napalm strikes: "Put it right on top of me. We might as well take some of them with us." At week's end Carpenter and other haggard survivors miraculously fought their way out of the trap-bringing their dead and wounded with them. Said Carpenter...
Last week Valkyrie 2's luck ran out. The cobra-cowled bird lunged into a cloud-flecked morning sky from California's Edwards Air Force Base with Alvin White, 47, North American Aviation's chief B70 test pilot, at the controls. After 2 hr. 15 min. of routine tests, the B70 readied for a less serious assignment, a formation flight with four other jet craft whose engines were made by General Electric Corp. Aim of the maneuver: color photographs for G.E., a Madison Avenue routine that routinely wins Pentagon approval...
...ever since the Communists have been losing three to four soldiers for every Allied loss. In the new war that Giap confronts, it is his own men who are being gnawed, harassed, hounded and hunted by day and night. Such sanctuaries as Zone C and Zone D near Saigon, bases in the highlands, underground village bastions on the coastal plain-all are being hit for the first time in years, keeping Giap's men off-base, off-balance and increasingly cut off from their supplies...
Henry A. Kissinger briefs Senatorial hopeful Edward Brooke on Vietnam. The four Harvard students arrested at the Boston Army Base are fined $20 for loitering and acting in a manner likely to cause breach of the peace. The Kennedy Institute will organize a "debating union" next Fall, and Bernard Malamud will teach a freshman seminar...