Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Misled." The deeds included the bombing of downtown Hanoi for the first time, as U.S. jets flew through a formidable antiaircraft barrage to strike a 32,000-kw. power plant, largest in the North. But the biggest show of U.S. strength occurred in the Demilitarized Zone at the 17th parallel, just north of which at least three North Vietnamese divisions sit menacingly. In what Washington described as a "purely defensive measure" to cut off infiltration, 10,000 U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese troops for the first time stormed the southern tier of the zone via helicopter and amphibious craft...
...flew alone. And on a single engine. He was the first real hero of the machine age, and in a sense the last. For not only was he in control of his machine, he was its partner; it was still possible to love it. Today's vast machines, casually performing vastly greater feats, exact service; but they scorn affection. They require large teams to tend them, and dwarf the individual...
Students poured out of their dormitories. More police arrived. Rocks and bottles flew. Then shots flashed from Lanier Hall, a men's dormitory, wounding Officer R. D. Blaylock in the thigh...
Editor's Protest. For the moment, the King and his subjects were stuck with the junta. When an earthquake leveled villages in the Pindus Mountains, some 150 miles north of Athens, King Constantine flew there to comfort the 16,000 homeless people-accompanied by General Pattakos. The trip buttressed the impression the junta wishes to convey: that the King is on their side. Actually, many Greeks, including the King, feel that the junta as it now exists is not likely to endure, and that one strong man will eventually emerge as dictator. It is with that man that...
Three-time All-America Bill Bradley, 23, the greatest basketball player that Princeton ever produced, flew home from Britain, where he has been grinding away at philosophy, politics and economics as an Oxford Rhodes scholar, to sign a contract with the New York Knickerbockers. He learned his economics well: the four-year agreement will pay him some $500,000. Actually, it wasn't the money, says Bill. "I found that I really love the game," he explained, "and that I want to test myself against the best." Bill's old coach Willem van Breda Kolff, 44, who engineered...