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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days of simultaneous fighting and negotiating, the Korean War came to an end just 15 years ago this week. The U.S. suffered 140,000 casualties, including 34,000 dead, in the more than three years of bitter fighting that followed the North Korean invasion of South Korea, but it kept the South from being overrun...
...surprise in Korea, once by the invasion from the North and again when the Chinese crossed the Yalu. Lately, in response to North Korea's new aggressiveness, it has increased its defenses along the DMZ to counter infiltration moves, has examined every possible North Korean strategy and has kept a close intelligence watch on the movements of North Korean troops and armor. So far, North Korea has confined itself to nasty words and restricted infiltration and sniping. There is, however, increasing concern that Kim II Sung may be planning something more substantial that could effectively write finis...
...noon of Sunday, the 6th of July, the fiesta exploded .,. . It kept up day and night for seven days. The dancing kept up, the drinking kept up, the noise went on." Thus, in 1926 in The Sun Also Rises, did a young Ernest Hemingway describe the Feria de San Fermin, the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. This month his widow Mary made a sentimental journey to Pamplona to witness the unveiling of a monument to Papa, erected by the citizens in gratitude for his interest in their fiesta. Standing on the newly named Paseo de Hemingway, Mary thanked...
...official government euphemism was that programming was to be kept "light" to "put the French in a vacation spirit." The fact, however, was that 114 newsmen and producers of the O.R.T.F. (Office de Radio et Télévision Français) were on a paid holiday until September pending what Couve called "a profound reorganization." Their wages had been raised 13%, but the TV strike issue had been government censorship, not money. That complaint was still unresolved...
Service on active duty with a National Guard unit kept him away from training camp with the Pats last summer, and Leo spent much of the fall on the taxi squad learning the plays and techniques he had missed. The two games he got into at the end of last season aside, he now sees himself as a rookie at Andover facing the weekly anxiety of cuts, and looking forward to the start of scrimmages July...