Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buffalo Appetite. An untidy collection of eleven hamlets with a population of 16,000, Hoaimy lies in central Viet Nam on the banks of the Lai Giang River just before it flows into the South China Sea. There are no roads in or out of the village. There is no bridge across the river. For centuries, Hoaimy has asked nothing of the world beyond the mountains and the sea except that it provide a market for the village's rice crop, which realizes some $400,000 a year...
...argument got nowhere either. Next, the Reds closed the village school and carted away the desks, benches and blackboards. Over a hundred young men were drafted into the guerrilla band. The Viet Cong billeted themselves on the villagers without payment. One housewife complained later that they "ate like water buffalo...
Died. Anson Conger Goodyear, 86, first (1929-39) president of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, a Buffalo industrialist and collector who, in 1929, at the request of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. and two other Manhattan patronesses of art, began organizing a museum for contemporary painting and design, signed on Director Alfred H. Barr and a cadre of blue-chip trustees, in ten years established the museum as the world's foremost devoted to modern art; of a heart attack; in Old Westbury...
...American Boeing 707-139 jet, coming into Kennedy Airport from Puerto Rico with 136 passengers and a crew of nine, overshot its runway and cracked apart in a sea of mud. No one was critically hurt. Then, about ten hours later, an American Airlines Lockheed Electra from Buffalo with 73 passengers and five crew members overshot a runway at La Guardia Air port and ended up in a pile of construction work. The only casualty was a construction worker who was hit by a flying stone. And less than two hours after that, an empty El Al Airlines Boeing...
...President had uttered stern words that might indeed burn for a time in labor's ears. But the fact was that in November, U.S. labor leaders will have little choice but to fall in behind him. Raymond Fahey, president of the International Union of Operating Engineers' Buffalo local, summed it up: "When the time comes, we'll go out and do everything we can for Johnson...