Word: dak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...messianic ritual meant to bring back the buffalo and ward off white bullets, the original Ghost Dance movement was not infallible. At Wounded Knee, S. Dak., on Dec. 29, 1890, more than 200 Sioux Ghost Dancers were machine-gunned to death by the U.S. cavalry in the last "engagement" of the Indian wars...
...first phase, which produced the battles of Loc Ninh and Dak To along the Cambodian border, was designed to draw American forces away from population centers and rural pacification areas and "force us," as Westmoreland said, "to dissipate our military strength." The second phase erupted in the past week's widespread attacks on population centers and military installations, aimed at rendering impotent for a time the U.S. ability to react quickly to the third-phase "main attack" against the Marines in northern Viet...
...Communist circular dated Oct. 3 specified that the general offensive should emphasize "attacks on enemy key units, cities and towns, lines of communication." Another, noting that the U.S. "has proved weak and passive during recent battles at Dak To and Loc Ninh," goes so far overboard in its confidence that it says the Viet Cong revolution will succeed by mid-1968 and that civilians should be advised to expect their Viet Cong and North Vietnamese family members at war to be home around...
James Albert Rosenquist, 34, the Rubens of the billboards, is doing equally well on this side of the Atlantic. The sometime sign painter from Grand Forks, N. Dak., stars this month with 32 works at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa (see color opposite). Gifted with pop art's most facile brush, Rosenquist was a smash with his first Manhattan show in 1962. His huge, bold panoramas combine the photo-simulated faces, glossily glamorized foods and chrome-plated gadgetry of Madison Avenue in weird compositions where objects seem to float off the canvas. In their own way, they...
Died. Major General Charles M. Eisenhart, 53, vice commander of the 15th Air Force and much-decorated combat veteran; of injuries when his KC-135 jet tanker crashed while attempting a takeoff in heavy fog, killing twelve of 13 aboard; at Minot Air Force Base, Minot, N. Dak...