Word: dayes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moment it arrived, C Company suffered daily casualties. Most of the mayhem was caused by mines and booby traps, and they were particularly plentiful in and around My Lai. By mid-March, the company, had lost a third of its original strength of more than 100 men. One day, a 155 mm. shell rigged as a booby trap killed one and injured four or five others. As Sergeant Michael B. Terry, 22, recalled it last week, "that really bothered the guys." Evidently so. Some of the men in the unit later beat up an innocent woman whom they spotted...
...money he's made. It's the kind of family he's raised." Joe Kennedy amassed a fortune of some $400 million (see box, p. 23), but he was also an astonishing success as a progenitor. Yet the patriarch's glory was brief. One day last week was the sixth anniversary of John Kennedy's assassination. Another would have been Robert Kennedy's 44th birthday. And on a third, the family gathered to bury Joseph Patrick Kennedy, who died of heart failure...
...day-to-day management of the Kennedy fortune is Thomas J. Walsh, 45, an accountant and tax expert who has been employed by the family since the 1950s. In the hands of skillful men like Walsh, the heirs have no real cause for money worries. There will continue to be, in Joe Kennedy's terse public accounting, "enough." But enough for what? Surely enough to support generations of Kennedys in comfort. But when it comes to maintaining their political ascendancy and using money as effectively as the founder, the future is shadowed by doubt...
...day not many years ago, an enormously successful businessman who had built a corporation from scratch reflected on the career of his friend Joe Kennedy: "Joe was a pure capitalist, not the Wall Street kind. The Wall Street establishment has a bias on the bull side. Joe didn't. He never took responsibility for building or running anything. But he had money sense. He knew what to use his money for-how to have fun with it. Joe bought all those houses. He made all those movies. He understood about buying himself positions in government-London, for example...
...take this the wrong way," Bean cautioned, "but they look like small volcanoes-only they're just about 4 ft. high." After four hours of exploring, during which they strayed about 800 ft. from Intrepid, the astronauts were ordered back to the lunar module for the day. As he helped haul the rock samples aboard, a weary Conrad said: "Not going to have any trouble sleeping tonight...