Word: canals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stars. He got his Silver Star in October 1944 when he was a 22-year-old second lieutenant with the U.S. 7th Armored Division then fighting in The Netherlands. He was leading a platoon in a unit that was locked in combat with German forces for control of a canal when the Germans broke through. Mulliken and two of his men fought a delaying action while the rest of his platoon withdrew. Dug in, the three helped hold off the Germans for nine hours...
...continues. For the last tabulated one-week period, in fact, Viet Cong incidents have soared to a new high of 1,038. They range from propaganda marches in provincial capitals, protesting U.S. air strikes, to last week's mining of the Danish freighter S.S. Kina, en route via canal from the sea to Saigon. The submerged mine blew a gaping hole in the Kina, but failed to sink her; if it had, much of the heavy cargo coming into Saigon would have been held up until the canal was cleared...
Mohieddin has jailed dozens of Communists, reopened negotiations with Washington to get U.S. food shipments started again, hired pro-Western Mahmoud Younis, director of the Suez Canal, to reorganize Egypt's creaking transport and communications. Last week Cairo even announced that it hoped to infuse some new capitalist life into the long-moribund Cairo Stock Exchange, and declared Port Said a duty-free zone...
...world-famous movie idol, plastered, commanded a pretty girl to get into his limousine, take off all her clothes"), odd tidbits of inconsequential information ("The Duke of Windsor eats caviar with a spoon"), and dark hints of international espionage ("Anti-American factions are planning to blow up the Panama Canal"). When she wasn't being very nasty, she could be very nice. While she knocked Frank Sinatra and Jack Paar at every possible opportunity, she had only good things to say about Pop Singer Johnny Ray or Broadway Producer Richard Kollmar, her husband. She also wrote kindly about...
This curious medical coincidence was noted by Endocrinologist Dr. Jo Ann Taylor, who had prescribed metronidazole (trade name Flagyl) for a woman suffering from trichomonas vaginalis. The infection causes an unpleasant itching or burning of the vaginal canal, and because it can be contracted and retransmitted through sexual intercourse, Dr. Taylor put her patient's husband on Flagyl too. And that was how she discovered the drug may be far more than a potent trichamonacide...