Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Texas. The site chosen, above six others originally under consideration, was Cam Ranh Bay, on the grounds that 1) it could be approached from the sea, eliminating possible sniper fire; 2) the nearest fighting was 50 miles away; and 3) the base is precisely what Lyndon Johnson has in mind when he says the facilities now abuilding in Viet Nam will some day be turned to the purposes of peace. One of the world's great natural harbors, it has been converted into a sprawling, 75-sq.-mi. complex whose port facilities already handle as much tonnage as Saigon...
...darkness was enveloping the bay, turning the mountains beyond it a deep purple and leaving only a golden-orange ribbon at the rim of the horizon. Just 2 hours and 24 minutes after he arrived, the President boarded his big Boeing 707. Scarcely six hours after leaving Manila, he was back-and only then was the news of his historic trip broken. In Saigon, newsmen got wind of it a couple of hours earlier, but the government pulled the plug on all press circuits for 21 hours to make sure that the President was safely back in the Philippines...
Amid gentle swells 50 miles off the coast of North Viet Nam, the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Oriskany swung north ward into the wind. Four A-4E Skyhawk jet bombers soared gracefully off the flight deck. At 7:38 a.m., four more were being readied in a hangar bay far below, when a shouting sailor burst from a 15-ft.-square locker near by. Be hind him was an ominously hissing stack of 700 Mark-24 magnesium parachute flares. He barely had time to dog down the hatch on the locker and race for a phone when the flares began...
That night, looking as if she had taken a direct hit in battle, the 42,000-ton Oriskany limped across the South China Sea, bound for Subic Bay in the Philippines. Shortly after she docked there, honor guards from her crew carried away a seemingly endless line of flag-draped coffins. Thus, only two weeks before she was due to finish her second tour of duty off Viet Nam, the Oriskany suffered in one day the Navy's worst disaster of the Viet Nam War: 35 officers (24 of them combat-conditioned pilots) and eight enlisted men had died...
...world was busy celebrating Pablo Picasso's 85th birthday last week. Some dozen exhibitions have opened from Lapland to the Los Angeles County Museum and Macy's department store in New York City. Bags full of mail and telegrams arrived at Mougins, a tiny town above the bay at Cannes on the French Riviera, where Picasso lives. Grateful citizens of Vallauris, the town Picasso resurrected by reviving its pottery industry, sent a huge bouquet of red roses with a white dove in a cage, and their children sent batches of their best crayon drawings. His wife Jacqueline...