Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Force "human reliability test" with good marks in February, Meyer was sent to England for temporary duty. He left his wife and three children behind in the rural town of Poquoson, Va. One night last week, Meyer went into Freckenham, a Suffolk town near the Mildenhall air base, got drunk at a party attended by other servicemen and found himself arrested by a constable. He was taken back to the base and put to bed. Although Meyer was under orders not to leave his barracks, about 5 a.m. he got up and sneaked out of his billet. He showed...
...campaign draws to a finale, the Bradley camp believes that Yorty has overdone his scare campaign. The theory has considerable validity. One recent poll showed that 27% of those opposing Yorty base their stand on his noxious campaign strategy...
...DeMichele narrowly edged sophomore teammates Varney and Pete Bernhard for Harvard's Wendell Bat. The Bat is awarded on the basis of points for safe arrivals at first base, sacrifice hits, stolen bases, runs scored, and RBI's. DeMichele, who finished the season hitting .342, set a Harvard record for fewest strikeouts (3) in a single year...
...that morning's volunteers as a special "Hotshot" unit with the hope that a little more formal schooling would turn them into an elite outfit like the trained crews from native villages. The men were paid $45 a day and allowed to vegetate for a week at the smokejumper base under the guise of intensive training...
When a paddy wagon drove them from Fairbanks International Airport back to the smokejumper base, the firefighters underwent a period of cultural shock. They became high on novelty. Inside the truck, they felt like monsters caged for the first time with a crew of other wild apes. They suddenly discovered upholstered chairs instead of logs, porcelain plates instead of tin cans ... silverware, firm ground, women, bright colors, music boxes. The clean, fragile people around them in the town were tense; they walked in odd bursts of nervous movement and talked too quickly...