Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Never in such a brief space has there been a better analysis of the "farm mess" [Sept. 3]. I want you to know that we appreciate your outstanding work...
...pincers, aided by tactical air strikes from Navy bombers, were flushing out Viet Cong on all sides. In the first encounter, U.S. Marines killed four V.C. and captured six. The Vietnamese soon checked in with 28 dead Viet Cong, and the bombers picked off twelve more. Later, in one brief, fierce firefight, the marines killed 17 more Viet Cong and captured 21, suffering not a single U.S. casualty in the process. Marine Major General Lewis Walt flew into Batangan for a battlefield look, found himself "so proud of my marines I can hardly talk...
...people persisted in saying that Madame Chiang Kaishek, 67, had something up her sleeve as she sampled U.S. cooking and opinion for the first time in seven years. But Nationalist China's graceful First Lady, moving into the presidential suite of Washington's Shoreham Hotel for a brief stay, merely repeated that the trip was private, "just to visit old friends and make a few speeches...
...there, last year, at a brief, carefully chaperoned meeting, that Ruth met Reb Blau. Apparently, it was love at first sight. Ruth shyly told the shadchan: "I'd be greatly honored if he would accept me as his wife." Blau himself was all for it, but when news of their betrothal got out, members of the Neturei Karta were horrified that he should even think of marrying a shikse (Gentile), even if she was a convert who shaved her head and kept it covered in anticipation of the marriage...
...Admiral of the Ocean Sea, History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II). Man and boy, he sailed "down north and up along" the coast of Maine and Nova Scotia summer after summer, and made voyages of opportunity in all quarters of the globe. Now, in a brief delightful memoir, the old salt recalls with affection some of the finest hours he has passed between wind and water -a day in 1961 when everything went right, a day in 1956 when everything went wrong, a long warm summer's sail among the shining isles of Greece. Much...