Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Airs Above the Ground, Stewart...
Dodge City. The real threat is on the ground, and missions near Hanoi and Haiphong are predictably the most hazardous of the air war, for it is there that the North Vietnamese have concentrated the bulk of their antiaircraft guns and SAM sites. More often than not, a key target must be cleared all the way through the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon before the pilots take off. The pilots call the JCS strikes "doomsday missions" because, as Air Force Captain Glenn R. Magathan of Chicago explains, "there's no way in and no way out without...
...elements in mind. Thus James Reston criticized the government's apparent assumption that a simple increase in violence, without confronting political and economic problems, can force the Communists to accept an inherently intolerable solution. The Times also reported that American officers were puzzled at the Communist refusal to yield ground in the battle on the Chuprong Massif. Apparently the Vietcong are not using a similar conceptual scheme...
...Bowditch, too, was side-lined much of the season. At Cornell Hammond dislocated the little finger on each hand in a scramble for a loose ball, and a month later he was stunned when a Brown forward kicked him in the head as he smothered a ball on the ground...
William Hanley's Slow Dance on the Killing Ground is kind of a New York version of Sartre's No Exit. Three people with morbid backgrounds use each other for cathartic exposition of their life stories...