Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President it elected to carry out institutional reforms." Chileans took the opportunity, all right, but the results were not what Frei and just about everyone else had expected. While each of Chile's six other parties made substantial gains at the polls, Frei's Christian Democrats lost ground...
...retarded children. "These children can be trained to work and should be employed," she said, and went on to note that "such a person was employed for reupholstering work at the White House during my son's Administration." Meanwhile, in New York, plans were announced to break ground this week for the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Center for Research in Mental Retardation, supported in part by a $1,450,000 Kennedy family donation...
...could have revitalized the troupe, has called it quits -for a high flying career with the U.S. paratroops. "I just like heights-on our first jump we will be jumping from 1,200 ft.," said Steve. "The highest I ever got in the circus was 50 ft. above the ground...
...painstakingly taken the reported casualties and calculated the chance that any one man would be killed or injured on any single day. The risk, he concluded, was so slight that he could stop worrying. All the men, no matter how often they talked of near misses by Viet Cong ground fire, had convinced themselves of their own invulnerability...
Evening Peak. Since the flying medics were a special breed, exposed to enemy fire for only an hour or two at a stretch and not every day at that, Dr. Bourne wanted to study the reactions of ground forces in constant danger and therefore under continuing stress. To do this, he and Technician William M. Coli joined a Green Beret detachment of two officers and ten enlisted men stationed at Due Co, southwest of Pleiku and only a few miles from the Ho Chi Minh trail. The Green Berets had good reason to be edgy. The study began during...