Word: beachful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Regarding Air Commando Squadrons in Thailand [July 26], I'm reminded of the story during World War II when Lieut. Ryan of the U.S. Navy Seabees stepped out of the jungle of New Caledonia and onto the beach to greet an assemblage of Marines assaulting the beach with "The Seabees are always glad to welcome the Marines ashore." As in that case, in 1968 the Seabees of the more than 20 Seabee teams that have operated in the remotest parts of Thailand since 1963 are happy to welcome the Air Commandos aboard. We've treated nearly...
There was also a eight-oar championship race at Orchard Beach, which Harvard did not enter. The race was won by St. Catherine's (Ontario) Rowing Club, which is Canada's Olympic entry. The Canadian boat bested Vesper by over a length, but it was not the same top nine men which Vesper put up in a losing effort to Harvard at the Olympic Trials in California last month...
...Harvard crew, divided in half, lost twice at the Orchard Beach National Championships over the weekend in a leisurely preliminary to the Olympics in October...
...does pose special problems because the group's members seem to have dredged up out of themselves a new vein in rock music--one that sounds like no other group for more than the odd fleeting moment. If you can imagine a music that sounds a little like the Beach Boys in their early 'I Get Around' stage but harder, or like The Stones' 'Jumping Jack Flash' but harder, you have the Who at their medium mellowest, i.e. doing 'Out in the Street...
While the futile floor fight was waged on national television, blacks fought with Miami police in Liberty City, a Miami slum about six miles away from Miami Beach. Police reported rampant looting. Republican Governor Claude Kirk called in the National Guard and appeared on television at 7 p.m. asking people in the area to spend a quiet night with their families. By midnight, four Blacks were dead and over 75 people were arrested...