Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Candy from the Sky. From Flagstaff, Ariz., eastward to Fruitland, N. Mex., and from the pinon groves of Utah southward to the stands of saguaro cactus near the Mexican border, the six-state area last week dug out of disaster. The roar of plow and plane engines resounded as Southwesterners...
Some Southwesterners, in the harsh, half-forgotten tradition of the Old West, refused to be awed by the natural disaster. Speaking of the eight deaths on the Navajo Reservation, Presbyterian Missionary Harold Borhauer, 45, said: "I bury more than that at the opening of the pinon season"-the autumn harvest...
The bulk of government forces is now assigned to pacification: 54 of the regular ARVN's 154 battalions, nearly all the R.F.s and P.F.s. It is not a task that the ARVN has yet mastered; in 1967, the Viet Cong killed more pacification workers than in 1966. The ARVN...
The news hit Australia and the world like the slam of a bullet. At first, there was disbelief. Such things just did not happen in affable, easy-going Australia, and certainly not to its Prime Minister. What astonished many was that the ruler of so large a nation should go...
The chances for a tax increase in 1967 finally died when Mills pressed Federal Reserve Board Chairman William Mc-Chesney Martin at a late November hearing. "Your line of questioning," remarked Martin, "indicates clearly that the economy is not too boomy at the moment." Snorted Mills: "Not too booming? It...