Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lack of Crimson strength under the boards should provide even more trouble tonight when 7-0 Dave Newmark, the giant with the side-burns, comes into the LAB with his Columbia teammates. Columbia has been riding high lately, with an impressive New York Holiday Festival crown under its belt, and a strong victory last week over Princeton, and should be a little too much for Harvard to handle...
Since the attacks occurred in the midst of a truce to observe the Tet New Year holiday, the U.S. is unlikely to approve any temporary cease-fires in the future. Nor is it likely that Washington will want to risk a bombing pause any time soon. "We Americans will never yield," said Johnson during a Medal of Honor ceremony in the White House. American planes will continue to hit the North until there is "some better sign than these last few days have provided" of Hanoi's willingness to ease...
Though ominous harbingers of trouble had been in the air for days, most of South Viet Nam lazed in uneasy truce, savoring the happiest and holiest holiday of the Vietnamese year. All but a few Americans retired to their compounds to leave the feast of Tet to the Vietnamese celebrators filling the streets. Vietnamese soldiers made a special effort to rejoin their families. Relative visited relative, threading through thousands of firecrackers popping and fizzing in the moonless night. The Year of the Monkey had begun, and every Vietnamese knew that it was wise to make merry while there...
...difficult for the enemy in the future. In making a mockery of the Tet truce, proposed in the first instance by the Viet Cong and reluctantly agreed to by the allies, the Communists, as U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker indicated, made it highly unlikely that there would ever be a holiday truce again. By demonstrating their resources of manpower, the resiliency of their communications and command networks and the quality and quantity of their weaponry in the widespread attacks, the Communists also made it highly unlikely, as President Johnson all but said, that there would be any bombing pause over North...
Nationally-ranked Columbia appears to be out of reach. The Lions have the top two scorers in the Ivies, Jim McMillan and Dave Newmark. And their big win over Princeton last Saturday, coupled with the New York Holiday Festival crown, shows them to be a poised, aggressive team...