Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outslugged the Crimson 17-12 in hits and 6-1 in extra-base knocks. Shortstop Bob Witkowski beat Harvard almost singlehandedly with four hits, two doubles, four RBI's and one run. Pete Watzka and Captain Ed Cott combined for seven tallies...
...last week, the team split up. Eight climbed to the 17,000-ft. level and began building a temporary bridge across a 10-ft. crevasse, while the others worked at base camp. At noon, the eight high on the mountain heard the terrifying rumble that signals an avalanche. Before they could take cover, it smashed down upon them, sweeping away five Americans, including Everett, and two Sherpa porters. The eighth man, Louis F. Reichardt, 27, of Palo Alto, Calif., was out of the slide's path and survived. He spent the next several hours searching for his companions. Late...
...cannot store nuclear weapons in Japan, for instance, and it is highly probable that warheads are stored somewhere at the Kadena base. The U.S. is also prohibited from using Japan bases as staging points to send men and equipment directly into combat...
...miles of drive-in restaurants, Laundromats, pizza parlors and souvenir stands. Big American cars squeeze through Naha's narrow streets. G.I.s and their families crowd in and out of shops, housewives wearing scarves over the inevitable hair curlers. In Koza, the nearest large town to the Kadena base, there are numerous bars, such as the Night Queen, Cabaret Aloha and U.S. Club, and few nights go by without at least one fistfight involving overloaded Americans and Okinawans. Not quite as visible, but equally pervasive, is American control of Okinawan affairs. Except for Berlin, Okinawa stands as the last occupied...
...sell the country the space program." Other NASA officials fear that too many Americans view the lunar landings not as a beginning but as an end. All the old questions are reappearing with increasing frequency in public debate: Does man have a place in space? Should he establish a base on the moon? Should he explore the planets? Is the space program an extravagance when the nation's other needs already dwarf available funds? Just how fast should the U.S. venture yet farther into space...