Word: footings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jagged, spiny peaks on either side rise 5,000 ft. to 6,000 ft. and are covered with a triple-canopy jungle 100 ft. tall. Ever since a U.S. Special Forces camp was overrun in the valley in March of 1966, only furtive U.S. reconnaissance patrols have set foot in it. The North Vietnamese turned A Shau into a sanctuary and their greatest storehouse in I Corps. It became a key infiltration route from Laos and the Ho Chi Minh Trail to Hue and Danang...
...over the campus. ("Brass buttons, blue coat, can't catch a nanny goat" goes the Harlem nursery rhyme.) I start to go off the campus but then remember to turn and walk two blocks uptown to get to the only open gate. There I squeeze through the three-foot "out" opening in the police barricade, and I feel for my wallet to be sure I've got the two I.D.'s necessary to get back into my college. I stare at the cops. They stare back and see a red armband and long hair and they perhaps tap their nightsticks...
...wildest dreams--would ever have expected a finish in the Yale-Harvard golf match that could top last year's, when the Crimson's number seven man missed a two-foot put on the second hole of a playoff to give the Elis a 4-3 victory...
Number three man Tom Wynne won a reprieve at 18 when his opponent. Jon Coles, missed a one-foot putt that would have won the Elis the match. At 19, however. Wynne had driving problems, bogeyed, and lost...
...Crimson has not beaten Yale since 1957, and that victory was the first in more than 20 years. Last year, Harvard lost a horrible, heartbreaking match, 4-3, when the team's number seven man missed a two-foot putt on the second hole of a sudden death playoff...