Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...miles from the nearest U.S. settlement. Carrying all his worldly possessions in a wheat sack, Gitelson traveled the back canals of the Delta in sandals and faded Levi's, entertaining peasants with his concertina and instructing them in the modern farming methods he had picked up as an honor student at the University of California at Davis. The peasants called him My Ngheo-the poor American...
...their "capital of reciprocal interest, attraction and admiration." De Gaulle then intoned a toast to Bohlen, who is returning to Washington as Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. "We have found you a diplomat of the highest order," he said. "I raise my glass in your honor, in honor of Franco-American friendship...
...supreme trophy for France as well. A relatively new sport, Alpine skiing only acquired Olympic recognition in 1936, and it has become virtually a private French preserve since Coach Honoré Bonnet, 48, a feisty little ex-army officer, took over the team in 1959. Bonnet taught his racers the aerodynamic "oeuf" position that won a gold medal in the downhill for Jean Vuarnet at Squaw Valley in 1960. He dressed them in slick nylon stretch suits instead of baggy trousers and tops, switched them from wood to more maneuverable metal skis, made training an intensive, year-round proposition, stressed...
...appearance of a Harvard man to honor Yale players at a victory dinner is not without precedent. In 1960 Harvard quarterback Charley Ravenel, "the riverboat gambler," softened Eli hearts with his talk...