Word: clay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists were indeed closing in. "I see no reason to believe that they'll stop now," said Khe Sanh's commander, Colonel David E. Lownds, 47. With new NVA bunkers spotted only 300 yards from Marine lines, corpsmen with stethoscopes knelt on Khe Sanh's red clay to see if the enemy had tunneled underneath, as occurred around Dienbienphu. So far, they have heard nothing suspicious...
Tiger captain Paul Arnow (145) decisioned Jeff Seder, 6-1, to erase an early 6-3 Harvard lead. In successive matches, Princeton's Clay McEldowney beat Bill Zinn (152), 6-4, Sam Mitchell pinned Dick Low (160) in the third period, and Pete Thompson decisioned Howie Chatterton (167), 5-2, to give Princeton a 17-6 team lead...
...monsoonal overcast, and the air is raw and wet with winter. The camp seems to have settled into a dull, lethargic pace to match the dull, damp weather that envelops it. In a mood of resignation, Marines go about their life-or-death work, digging into the red clay, filling sandbags, bolstering the bunkers they know are their one protection against the real rain: the whining rockets and the mortars that come with no warning-just the awful cracking sound as they explode...
...ground, work is frustrating for the 300 native laborers and their supervisors. Bulldozers slop through red clay so slippery that they have to winch their way downhill as well as up. The biggest challenge is laying the pipeline, which will cost Texaco and Gulf about $50 million. Machete-wielding workers are helicoptered into the jungle to clear the land for the disassembled bulldozers that follow. Then pipe is dropped in. Four 3,600-h.p. diesel pumping stations are being constructed to boost the oil up the mountain...
...than-average coordination is the only ticket out of poverty. Negro track stars like John Lindsay's Director of Recreation, Hayes Jones, often use the publicity of an Olympic medal to land good jobs, the standouts in team sports go on to play for pay, and boxers like Cassius Clay and Floyd Patterson win professional crowns...