Word: bunkered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most promising area of automation is computer control of factory production lines. Last week two major space-age firms got together to form the newest and biggest company in a rapidly growing field. The Martin Marietta Corp. and Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc. set up a separate company called the Bunker-Ramo Corp. to design and install computerized assembly lines for the industrial market...
...honor of the popular 155-pound end of the 1933 Crimson team who was killed while serving on a destroyer in 1944. The LaCroix Award was established in 1950 by friends of Bill LaCroix '42, who died from injuries incurred while serving as a deck officer on the carrier Bunker Hill operating in the Leyte Gulf...
...Senior League championship in 1959, 17,000 rooters were on hand, and one fan got so excited that he drove his Cadillac onto the field and rammed it into the goal posts until they finally fell down. Every evening, outside Jack the Barber's one-chair barbershop on Bunker Hill Street, scores of youngsters gather to ogle the neighborhood heroes, talking football inside. They wheedle and whine until Star Townie Halfback Nippy Nolan agrees-as he always does-to perform the stunt for which he is famous all over Charlestown. Crouching low taking a deep breath, he leaps...
Shortly after midnight, the Reds hit Cai Nuoc directly. Pouring mortar shells and recoilless rifle fire in the perimeter system of defensive bunkers, the Viet Cong breached the front gate of the city's major outpost, ran from bunker to bunker lobbing in grenades and shooting the defenders in the back. The fight lasted for only 35 minutes, but the Reds occupied the town for the next 17 hours. It was a bloodbath. When reinforcements finally appeared, they found a heap of 50 mutilated bodies, including women and children, which the Reds had set afire...
Perhaps the unhappiest example of Memorial Day slaughter occurred near Cornwall, Conn. A sports car in which two young men were leaving a beer party climbed a grade along Bunker Hill on a clear afternoon, somehow skidded into the wrong lane, crashed head-on into a sedan. In the sedan, Albert Wilklow, 42, and his entire family (Wife Georgette, 37, Sons Albert Jr., 14, Frank, 12, and Daughter Paula, 10) were returning to their home in Torrington, Conn., after a day of fishing at a state park. All five died in the flaming crash. So did the occupants...