Word: cements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attack power plants within the city of Haiphong, previously a proscribed area. Last week, from attack carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin and from bases in Thailand and South Viet Nam, fighter-bombers blasted six new targets: a Haiphong factory that turns out 95% of the North's cement, the country's biggest rail-repair yard just 2.5 miles from the center of Hanoi, a power transformer seven miles from the capital, a 738-ft. bridge on the Canal des Rapides across which all the traffic from Communist China and 30% of the North's war materiel...
...raids, said Rear Admiral David C. Richardson, whose Task Force 77 carriers launched the jets, "will show some people that their sanctuaries are not what they think they are." A few off-limits areas remain nonetheless-Haiphong's port facilities and its huge cement plant, Hanoi's industries, the MIG airfields and the dikes that channel water to the Red River rice bowl...
...Project has built 6,278 such classrooms since it began as a U.S. AID program four years ago. At first the Saigon government put up the buildings, but when the Viet Cong burned them down, the local people were indifferent. Now it is common for Saigon to provide the cement and aluminum roofing and let the residents do the work. That way, notes Ho Van Chieu, primary education chief for Phong Dinh province, "the V.C. are afraid to burn them down for fear of infuriating the people who built them...
Harvard's only Eastern loss since 1964 came on these courts two years ago. Weather permitting, Barnaby will have his team practicing on the Soldier's Field cement today and tomorrow...
...always, spring training wound up with a flurry of activity. To cement their porous infield, the New York Yan kees purchased Dodger John Kennedy, who made only eight errors in 125 games last year; Kennedy committed two booboos in his first game for the Yanks. The Baltimore Orioles shipped Pitcher Steve Barber, a 20-game winner in 1963, back to the minors; the New York Mets astonished practically everybody by farming out veteran Centerfielder Johnny Lewis, their No. 1 hitter (at .387) during the Grapefruit League season, replacing him with Rookie Don Bosch-who batted .147 this spring...