Word: lexington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after investing $376,000 in clearing trails, installing a ski lift and a snow machine, winter business is up to 150 guests a day. Homestead's success has encouraged other investors to plan a resort near Gatlinburg, Tenn. The investors are dickering with Larchmont Engineering, Lexington, Mass., the largest manufacturer of snow makers, for machines...
Roxane Harvey '62, of Gilman House and Lexington, has been elected President of the Yearbook for the 326 issue. Miss Harvey is the first Radcliffe girl over to be President of a College organization...
...Communist troops had invaded Laos from North Viet Nam. "In view of the present situation in Laos," said the Pentagon's announcement, "we are taking normal precautionary actions to increase the readiness of our forces in the Pacific." Cutting short a holiday at Hong Kong, the aircraft carriers Lexington and Bennington steamed off into the South China Sea, accompanied by a swarm of destroyers, plus troopships loaded with marines. On the U.S.'s island base of Okinawa, Task Force 116, made up of Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force units, got braced to move southward on signal...
Knudsen next turned to traffic, found that, even from 200 ft. away, a truck barreling along Los Angeles' San Diego Freeway pushed the needle up to 91 decibels -which is still twelve decibels lower than an accelerating Lexington Avenue bus in midtown Manhattan. At 92 decibels, New York's Times Square is probably the world's noisiest intersection; London's Oxford Circus registers 87, and Paris' Place de la Madeleine...
...ENTERPRISE" AND "LEXINGTON" HAVE SAILED FROM PEARL HARBOR...