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Word: coms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first concern was to defend Vahdati airfield near Dezful against an enemy column theoretically bearing toward it. This job was given to the U.S. paratroopers, who dropped in front of the invaders. At the same time, a U.S. amphibious force in the Persian Gulf sent a marine rifle com pany storming onto the island of Kharg to protect an imaginary oilfield against invasion or sabotage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: A Lesson for Sunland | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

...Yaleman (class of '41), he is far from a typical Old Blue. As an undergraduate he turned down membership in Yale's elite senior societies, quit a fraternity because of the "mumbo jumbo" of the national chapter. He was chairman of the local America First Com mittee, among a dozen other campus activities, but when war came, lie signed up as a Navy fighter pilot. Instead of returning to Yale, Brewster went through Harvard Law School, became a professor in it, and was talked about as a possible future dean. It was while he was vacationing on Martha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: New Haven, Safe Haven | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

...introduced. Priced to match the Mustang, the Barracuda uses a Valiant chassis and engine, but has a racy new Italianate body. At week's end American Motors introduced its new experimental sports car, called the Tarpon. It is the forerunner of a fastback four-seater that the com pany plans to introduce during the '65 model year. Designed more for comfort than for high performance, the new U.S. sports cars have heavier, larger bodies than their trimmer European counterparts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Midyear Models | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

...PANAMA, all efforts to find a com promise on the revision of the 1903 Canal Treaty failed. On a wave of bombast, Panama sailed into an emergency meeting of the OAS Council, charging the U.S. with "unprovoked attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Mapping the Sore Spots | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

...example, in his discussion of American involvement in the the invasion of Guatemala in 1954, Shapiro calls the overthrown Arbenz regime the best one the Guatemalan peasants had ever seen; he ignores almost entirely the torture and terror that, as other studies have revealed, stemmed from the growing Com- munist influence over Arbenz. Perhaps the most unfortunate simplification is Shapiro's title--the "invisible" Latin America which lies "behind the facade known to tourists...

Author: By Sanford J. Ungar, | Title: Shapiro Blasts U.S. Latin Policy | 2/6/1964 | See Source »

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