Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insult thousands of highly trained, intelligent Air Force ground crewmen who maintain our B-52s when you suggest that Cassius Clay [Feb. 25] could learn such a skilled job. The only thing he might be able to do is blow up a tire if the air compressor broke down...
Casualties. Fulbright's proposal for a U.S. retreat in Asia came at a time when Hanoi and Peking have been suffering notable reverses. Allied ground forces have dug out scores of previously impenetrable Viet Cong sanctuaries in South Viet Nam. And week by week, troopship by troopship, the best-trained soldiers America has ever fielded are joining battlewise U.S. combat forces in Viet Nam. Last week Defense Secretary Robert McNamara announced that U.S. forces in Asia would soon total 235,000-an increase of 30,000 in less than a month. In the heaviest raids over the North...
...were probably peering out the starboard windows for a glimpse of the mountain. Among them were 75 dealers and executives with their wives from Minneapolis' Thermo King Corp., on a 14-day company-paid tour of the Far East, a reward for outstanding sales. Suddenly witnesses on the ground saw the plane belch white, then black, smoke. To some it seemed to come apart in midair, pieces of wing and tail fluttering to earth like dry leaves. Presumed cause: either a mid-air explosion or disintegration as a result of turbulence from the very strong gusts of wind that...
Under one mixed-use plan, Pei might design office buildings to be built upon the memorial site, the MBTA yards across Boylston Street from Eliot House. Income from renting the upper stories to businesses would offset the cost of renting the ground floors cheaply to student organizations and local stores...
...plan would have a row of office buildings along Eliot Street, with ground-floor shops opening both onto the Brattle Square area and the library complex. Such buildings might include outdoor cafes, artists' supply shops, bookstores, or large restaurants...