Word: bays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Princeton's cocky varsity swimming team almost met defeat at the hands of the spunky and sometimes lucky Harvard swimmers in the IAB Saturday. Harvard held the undefeated Tigers at bay until the last event but Princeton snatched a 58-55 victory...
...flew to Wisconsin to prepare for the nation's second primary on April 2, Nixon seemed to have shucked many of his old liabilities-most notably his humorlessness and his guarded approach to the press. Self-confident and almost too self-effacing, Nixon wowed packed houses from Green Bay and Appleton to Stevens Point and Fond...
...that happens, the U.S. will be turning its back on contemporary history. John F. Kennedy learned at the Bay of Pigs that timid application of power can be worse than no exercise of power at all. Putting his experience into practice, he acted like a different leader during the Cuban missile crisis. He made it bluntly clear to Nikita Khrushchev that the U.S. was prepared to invade and overrun Cuba if the Russians did not remove their missiles. The result was a textbook settlement for a nuclear confrontation: both sides could claim a victory of a sort...
Lyndon Johnson, too, profited from the lesson of the Bay of Pigs. When he and his advisers decided that U.S. intervention was required in the Dominican Republic in 1965, he used no halfway measures. The U.S. landed in force, the job was done with dispatch, and the critics who carped about "gunboat diplomacy" were simply ignored...
...week narrowed to five the number of lunar landing sites being considered for Apollo astronauts. Two of the three-mile by five-mile elliptical landing zones are in the Ocean of Storms on the west side of the visible face of the moon, one in the appropriately named Central Bay and two in the easterly Sea of Tranquillity. All are relatively smooth and unobstructed, giving the astronauts a good chance of selecting a spot that is free of boulders, ridges or rifts that could endanger the landing of the lunar module...