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Word: havens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often punished the enemy, the Communists hit an Air Cav base, destroyed two helicopters and penetrated the perimeter before being repulsed. At the Dong Ba Thien airfield just north of Cam Ranh Bay, attackers using satchel charges destroyed nine helicopters. In the Mekong Delta, long a Viet Cong haven, the situation seemed even more serious. The Communists held half the important city of My Tho and parts of several provincial capitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: The General's Gamble | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

That is not exactly the stuff of which martyrs are made. Chances of the tax surcharge being enacted are still doubtful. Even the one-third of the signers who refuse to pay present taxes are not likely to go to jail. Some of them haven't paid taxes for years on grounds of pacifism. Since they have reported their income and paid part of their tax, the Internal Revenue Service does not take them to court. It attaches their bank accounts or other assets to recover the rest of the tax, plus a penalty of 6% a year. With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Writers: Part Way with Thoreau | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...Gatto, the pint-sized captainelect of the Harvard varsity football team, will take a verbal shot at the Yale varsity football team Monday at Woolsey Hall in New Haven...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: Gatto Will Address Elis At Yale Football Dinner | 2/8/1968 | See Source »

...sensitivity of the Peace Corps does not embrace every citizen of the country, nor each country, perhaps, in which the Peace Corps serves. But conviction balances doubts and demands not rejection but improvement. The complexity of development does not diminish its urgency, unless the riots of New Haven and Detroit suggest that progressive majors are now superfluous manpower...

Author: By Russell Schwartz, | Title: The Peace Corps Replies: A Project Director Responds to Criticism | 2/8/1968 | See Source »

...that non-resident students should pay something for college facilities they use. Exactly how much and for what shouldn't be left un-examined by the RUS. "Radcliffe is squandering a lot of money on things lots of students don't want," sophomore Donna Lieberman has claimed. But critics haven't yet checked the budget to find whether their charges are valid. The RUS should also try to decide a set of fiscal priorities--for instance whether the relatively expensive athletics program should continue to be subsidized by all students, even though a relatively small percentage participate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Off-Off | 2/7/1968 | See Source »

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