Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...daily headlines, full of demonstrations and burnings, would suggest. In the air, U.S. Air Force F-105 Thunderchiefs last week streaked over a big ordnance complex at Yen Bay, 80 miles northwest of Hanoi, and leveled it in the biggest, most destructive single strike of the war. On the ground, 1st Cavalry troopers reported killing more than 450 Viet Cong in Operation Crazy Horse northwest of An Khe, and a brigade of the 25th Infantry Division counted 371 Communist dead after a battle near Pleiku during Operation Paul Revere. "If you look at this war's military aspect without...
Monsoon rains are already pelting South Viet Nam, but U.S. officers are confident that "we'll be able to cope with anything they can throw, rain or shine," as Major General Stanley ("Swede") Larsen, commander of U.S. and Korean ground forces in the Central Highlands, put it. Though the Reds have not mounted a single offensive operation of more than battalion size since Jan. 1, many officers in Saigon expect them to strike in considerable force some time before summer's end, quite possibly at the narrow waist of South Viet Nam in the Central Highlands area. "They...
...should not be outlawed per se is, surprisingly, U.S. Food and Drug Commissioner Dr. James L. Goddard. In testimony before a Senate subcommittee, Goddard figured that an LSD ban "would automatically place maybe 10% of college students in the category of criminals" and would drive users under ground, making it more difficult to find and treat those who suffer dangerously psychotic effects. Goddard argued that present federal laws are sufficient to control the commercial manufacture and sale of LSD-the only legal supplier of which at present is the National Institute of Mental Health. And he vowed to take steps...
Even in the realm of religion, the Yugoslavs are breaking fresh Communist ground. Hard on the heels of the conviction and sentencing of Poet Vladimir Gajsek for "provoking religious intolerance," Belgrade and the Vatican announced that this month they will sign an agreement according new freedom to the Yugoslav Roman Catholic Church, particularly to teach the catechism and open seminaries...
...models based on military designs. Sikorsky sees a big civilian market for its Skycranes, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development has just put up $490,000 to test whether the Crane can fly a buslike pod of 40 passengers between airports and downtown-at costs competitive with ground travel...