Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Giants' Matty Alou failed. Pitchers from both clubs traded beanballs. Marichal low-bridged Wills and Ron Fairly. So Koufax took dead aim at Willie Mays. High with the pitch, Koufax hit the backstop instead, growled: "That was a lousy pitch. I meant it to come a lot closer...
...suddenly seemed possible that he was actually going to make it all the way to England. Then came the world headlines. Falmouth trawler captains gave up fishing to haul boatloads of journalists in search of the red-sailed dinghy; some reporters even clambered aboard to interview Manry at closer range. Then, heightening the drama, Manry went unsighted for a week before the last 55 miles to safety...
...been Vinh, the largest town in the panhandle of North Viet Nam, and the hub of road, rail and trail routes to the south. Last week U.S. Air Force and Navy planes once again pasted Vinh-this time with 77 tons of bombs. The prime targets now lie closer to Hanoi, and there last week the U.S. lost another fighter-bomber to North Vietnamese surface-to-air missiles. Cruising along some 50 miles southwest of Hanoi with three other jets on what pilots call an "armed wreck" (armed reconnaissance), a Navy A-4 Skyhawk felt the long...
...velopment of mutual understanding." Though filled with diplomatic cliches, the speeches did reflect the cautious new warmth in Soviet-Turkish relations that has been evident of late. As recent ly as 1964, Turkish leaders were open ly derisive of Moscow's efforts to bring the two ancient enemies closer together. But then came what many Turks re garded as President Lyndon B. John son's "summons" of the then Premier, Ismet Inonu, to Washington for talks on Cyprus. Inonii returned home with little U.S. backing. Perhaps also influ enced by the success of Pakistan in playing East...
However, Schrecker felt that U.S. policy is pushing the North Vietnamese closer to the Chinese and that unless U.S. involvement in South Vietnam is ended soon, North Vietnam will become a puppet of the Chinese...