Word: ens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Below, 30-mile gales were churning the Atlantic into loft whitecaps. On impact, the plane's left wing snapped off, and the 76 people aboard-many U.S. paratroopers en route to duty in Europe-were catapulted forward. Thanks to the pilot's skill, the cabin stayed in one piece. Said one awed survivor: "God had his hands on the controls." One couple leaped hand in hand from the escape hatch, only to be separated in the sea. Two children were tossed out before the cabin went under, but were never seen again. Seven men linked arms to stay...
...Simultaneously, the New York City Ballet is en route to Moscow. The U.S. dancers took with them dozens of cans of tuna fish, vegetables and soup. Evidently they plan to cook. Ballerina Melissa Hayden reportedly has 24 cans of Sterno in her trunk...
...Prescott Bush offered an amendment declaring that the U.S. "has the right and obligation" to end Communist domination of Cuba. His amendment, said Bush, would put Russia on notice "that the Monroe Doctrine is not dead, but remains an integral part of American foreign policy and will be en forced" Iowa's Jack Miller proposed an amendment that would have "authorized and directed" the President ";to take such action as is necessary to prevent any violation of the Monroe Doctrine." Most of these comments were emotional. Many were unknowing. But in a significant sense they reflected an intense American...
...depots have reduced the Communist-controlled populace to less than 30%. In the past year, the army's striking power has been massively enhanced by U.S. helicopters that can airlift Vietnamese troops in hours to isolated areas that once took days to reach-if they were not ambushed en route. In the next month, the four helicopter units now ferrying troops will be reinforced with three new companies, including a number of new models armed with machine guns and rockets...
...when the train pulled into Vyazma, a small town 150 miles west of Moscow. A group of collective farmers, goggling at a brightly lighted sleeper compartment, saw two young men cavorting in the raw on a table top; the farmers assumed they were watching the antics of mental patients en route to an asylum...