Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard lineup will be bolstered by the return to action of goalie Nat Bowditch and center halfback Chuck Okigwe. It is still uncertain whether both have regained top form after their long lay-offs; but if Coach Bruce Munro thinks they're ready to go, he will start the two, both of whom starred in the classic battle two years...
...problem lay in the Royal Commission. Smith insisted its only job was to determine whether or not the Rhodesian people wanted independence on the basis of their present constitution, which effectively blocks the way to majority rule by the colony's 4,000,000 b'acks. Wilson told Parliament, however, that the British wanted to empower the commission to draw up what would amount to a new constitution and then present it for the approval of both the blacks and Rhodesia's minority of 220,000 whites. Moreover, said Wilson, Britain would expect to have a veto...
...from the deal he had discussed with Wilson in Salisbury. Abruptly, he slapped government controls on all imports, supposedly to halt a buying panic that was rapidly depleting Rhodesia's hard-currency reserves, but perhaps to suggest that big events-such as a unilateral declaration of independence-lay ahead. Then, after a furious 24 hours in which he presided over a caucus of his Rhodesian Front Party and held three long Cabinet meetings, came an even more ominous gesture: the declaration of a nationwide state of emergency...
...fighter belched flame from its starboard engine, Captain Norman Huggins, 36, of Sumter, S.C., knew his search for North Vietnamese SAM sites was over for the day. He saw a finger-shaped island below him, surrounded by a wrinkled sea studded with enemy junks. The only hope for survival lay in his yellow and black ejection handles. Whoosh went the canopy, pow went the 37-mm. cartridge under his seat, pop went the parachute. And for the next 40 minutes, Norm Huggins fought for his life...
Even by battlefield standards, the op- erating room was bizarre. The patient lay on a bed in a storage shed, separated from a three-man team of doctors by a 10-ft. wall of sandbags. A 4-in.by 10-in. hole had been cut in the wall at bed level, and a slightly larger win dow above it was fitted with bulletproof glass. Behind the sandbags and peering through the window, Air Force Major General James Humphreys was all set to start a long-distance operation. With a scalpel attached to a 6-ft. pole, and a pair of pincers that...