Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...horror that his automatic rifle was empty. "I didn't know what to do," he recalls, "so I just said 'Hi' and smiled. All three of them stood looking at me, sort of confused. Then they began fumbling, but I had slipped in a fresh magazine by then and sprayed...
...told, since the siege at Plei Me first began, the enemy suffered 1,769 dead. Some 140 were captured, as were 903 individual and 110 larger weapons -almost enough armament to equip a regiment. That was evidence enough of the fresh influx of North Vietnamese troops that U.S. intelligence had long anticipated once the rainy season ended. Where the infiltration rate down the Ho Chi Minh trail was once 1,000 a month, it is now probably running 2,500, bringing, to date, seven, possibly eight North Vietnamese regiments into South Viet...
...once the ear adapts to Deller's pure, vibratoless voice spiraling effortlessly up through the range of the female alto, the effect is entrancing. In two Handel arias, it floated lightly and lonely as a lark above the bustle of the orchestra. The performance had all the fresh appeal of a lost art rediscovered, which, in fact, it is. Deller is now 53, but when he first achieved recognition, he was the first virtuoso countertenor in 120 years. Almost singlehanded he has sparked a revival of interest in baroque vocal music...
...WEAVERS: REUNION AT CARNEGIE HALL, PART 2 (Vanguard). If anyone has forgotten that the Weavers were once the pharaohs of folk, here is fresh proof. Recorded at a concert in 1963, this new release includes Frozen Logger, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, Old Smoky and Rock Island Line, plus a ditty called I'm Standing on the Outside of Your Shelter-bomb shelter, that...
About 30% of the trainees are al ready commissioned officers, most of them in their 20s, whose silver wings can carry their careers high in the air cavalry, the Army's youngest, fastest-growing branch. The other 70% are nearly all young volunteers fresh from high school and college, who become warrant officers* if they complete the flight course successfully. As new recruits, they take regular Army basic training for eight weeks and then go to Texas' Fort Wolters for four weeks of preflight instruction...