Word: cal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suddenly last summer, the woman accused her husband of menacing her with a .38-cal. revolver and threatening to kill himself. A Dallas County justice of the peace patched up that fight by telling the husband, former Electronics Technician Kenneth Porter, to get the gun out of the house and go to church. The advice obviously took, for Mrs. Porter, 24, is now awaiting the birth of her third child (her first by Porter) at home in a Dallas suburb. Porter is out of work just now, but the baby bills should be paid promptly just the same. Mrs. Porter...
Praise for Heyns's first-year performance comes from regents, faculty and students alike. Regent Norton Simon (TIME cover, June 4, 1965) says that Heyns has "achieved excellent balance between the rights of the students and the maintenance of the university traditions." Cal President Clark Kerr cites his "keen intelligence, great good sense, and calm but effective style." Former Student President Jerry Goldstein calls him "an absolutely fantastic individual, with warmth and humor...
...been the impregnable preserve of the Viet Cong -until one bright sunny morning when unexpected guests arrive. They are some 80 Armored Personnel Carriers of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division. Crashing through thickets, the APCs weave and crisscross, stitching the jungle with lethal, preplotted patterns of .50-cal. and M60 machine-gun fire. Grudgingly the Viet Cong give way, firing back carefully to conserve their slender hoard of ammunition...
...government cordon was nearly closed. Ky's marines, backed by tanks and a squadron of armored personnel carriers, each armed with a .50-cal. and two .30-cal. machine guns, ringed the rebel command post, the faded yellow-stucco Tinh Hoi Buddhist pagoda. Six blocks away, the foreign press, mostly American, was taking a breather on the cement terrace of the Press Center overlooking the Danang River...
...rewritten, renewed or simply reshuffled, conscription will continue to be conscription-a compulsory enrollment of men in the military service. And like it or not, Americans will continue to face it-grimly. As Cal State's draft-facing Gary Wilson said last week: "I'll go, but without enthusiasm...