Word: dak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks last October, Air Force crews tried to test-fire their Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missile at its silo in Grand Forks, N. Dak. On each of three attempts, its systems control light went red-meaning that the elaborate three-stage bird was unable or unsafe to fire. First it was a failure of a nozzle-control unit, then a glitch in a fail-safe arming circuit, then a guidance failure traced to a tiny capacitor...
...after a company of the 173rd Airborne Brigade made contact with North Vietnamese regulars who had been waiting in sanctuaries across the border in Cambodia. When the Americans brushed into a small knot of the Communist forces, they pursued their quarry up a muddy hillside in the jungle near Dak To, seven miles from where the frontiers of Cambodia, Laos and South Viet Nam meet. The U.S. troops were led right into a torrent of machine-gun fire from 30 sandbagged bunkers atop the slope. By the time the shooting ended, 25 Americans had been killed and 35 wounded. Other...
Three weeks ago, near Dak To in the Central Highlands of South Viet Nam, North Vietnamese troops over ran American positions, inflicting heavy casualties on the outnumbered, ambushed G.I.s. Then the North Vietnamese systematically slaughtered the Americans who lay wounded on the battlefield. It was only the latest in the continuing series of atrocities that the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong have made a deliberate and calculat ed part of their war tactics. With a chilling combination of care and coldbloodedness, they have assassinated pacification leaders, killed U.S. AID workers, decapitated village chiefs, abducted whole hamlets, and murdered prisoners...
...points, finished at 882.24, a level no one would have predicted 25 years ago. On hand to salute the viable U.S. economy which made all this possible was Hubert Humphrey, who described himself as a "longstanding capitalist as the proprietor of Humphrey's Drug Store in Huron, S. Dak.," a role he played before he became Minneapolis mayor, U.S. Senator and finally Vice President...
Psychiatrist Bowes, director of the Institute of Neurology and Psychological Medicine in Grand Forks, N. Dak., spoke from intimate experience. At 55, he is undoubtedly one of the most hopeless hi-fi addicts who ever attenuated a treble. Last week, while on vacation in London, he relieved some of his anxieties by hiring 63 off-duty members of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to record his favorite ballet music from Verdi's Sicilian Vespers and Rossini's William Tell. Bowes first hit on the tape-it-yourself idea while visiting a musician friend who was making a recording...