Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Words. Only a few weeks ago, Southeast Asia evoked only bland smiles from most U.S. officials. Reason: President Johnson, for understandable political reasons, had decided to continue old policies, to let things slide-without a crash landing-until after November. Things slid, all right-almost to the bottom of the slide...
...What is purple and weighs 2,000 pounds and lives at the bottom...
...Sweep Bottom Matches...
...Crimson swept three of the four bottom-of-the-ladder singles matches and both doubles. Terry Robinson, captain Sandy Walker, and Tom James turned in three-set wins, before John Vinton lost to Don MacAusland, 7-5, 6-4, in the tenth match...
...special precautions against terrorism by the Communist Viet Cong, May Day had come and gone quietly. But at 5 the next morning, the South Vietnamese capital was jolted by a roar from the harbor. There, the 9,800-ton U.S. aircraft-transport ship Card was sinking fast -it touched bottom in just 24 minutes-into the silt of the Saigon River, a 28-ft. by 3-ft. hole ripped in her starboard side. Apparently Viet Cong agents had placed plastic charges on the hull 10 ft. below the water line...