Word: highlander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House and Evanston, III., president: Spencer B. Marx '71 of Quincy House and Scarsdale, N.Y., managing editor; Julian R. Birnbaum '70 of Adams House and Caldwell, Idaho, business manager; Margaret J. Rizza '71 of Cabot Hall and New Britain, Conn. and Richard H. Rosen '71 of Adams House and Highland Park, III., poetry editors; Douglas A. Booth '71 of Dunster House and Beverly Hills, Calif., prose editor; Sarah Warren '70 of 103 Walker Street and Nahant, art editor; Elizabeth A. Campbell '71 of 56 Linnaean Street and Harvard, secretary; and Thomas A. Stewart '70 of Adams House and Glencoe...
Dunn--gaily clad in a green plaid kilt, green tweed jacket, green knee socks, and black bonnet--then yielded to the 15-member Stuart Highland Pipe Band of Bedford, which piped old favorites like "Scotland the Brave" and "We're No Away to Bide Away" to complete the ceremony...
Domestic Trauma. For women who have been raised in an Orthodox family, setting up a kosher household is no great problem. But Mrs. Frances Alpert of Highland Park, Ill., whose parents were nonobservant, found it created a domestic trauma. "At first it was a mess," she says. "We had to buy new pots and pans, new baking utensils, a second glass for the Osterizer, a second set of parts for the Mixmaster." Fortunately, her husband is in the housewares business. Even luckier was Mrs. Sharon Baris, a Radcliffe graduate married to a Harvard-educated corporate lawyer. When...
Pleiku, a highland town of 66,000, was 50% destroyed and 11,000 of its people made homeless. Ban Me Thuot was 25% destroyed, had over 500 civilian dead and 20,000 refugees. In the Delta, Vinh Long was 25% destroyed and burdened with 14,000 new refugees. Ben Tre (pop. 35,000) was one of the hardest hit towns in all Viet Nam: 45% destroyed, nearly 1,000 dead, and 10,000 homeless. Many sections of Saigon were heavily damaged and 120,000 people left homeless. Estimates of the damage to Hue ran as high...
Civilian Shields. In the fighting throughout the country, the Communists, as Westmoreland pointed out, showed "a callous disregard for human life," attacking hospitals as well as military compounds, using churches and schools as defense posts and captured civilians as shields. In the highland town of Ban Me Thuot, the Viet Cong killed six American missionaries in a sweep through a leprosarium operated by the Christian and Missionary Alliance, leaving their bodies wired with booby traps...