Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best things that has happened to Micronesia since 1947, when the United Nations handed Micronesia over to the U.S. under a trusteeship arrangement. The U.S.'s negligence towards the "adopted cousin" is portrayed in Willard Price's America's Paradise Lost...
...dubbed "Sea Spirit," Captain John P. Stevenson, skipper of the Australian aircraft carrier H.M.A.S. Melbourne, dined on board in Manila Bay with several allied naval officers. Talk turned to the somber subject of collision. Five years earlier, Melbourne had sliced into an Australian destroyer, and 82 hands had been lost. Stevenson said that his country's morale could not stand another such mishap involving the fleet's flagship. Four nights later, his fears became fact...
...naval exercise, the 16,000-ton Melbourne ripped into the U.S.S. Frank E. Evans, a 24-year-old, 2,200-ton American destroyer. Within five to six minutes, the bow of the bisected Evans sank in 5,500 feet of water; 74 of her 273-man crew were lost. Among the missing were three brothers, Gary, Gregory and Kelly Sage of Niobrara, Neb. Their deaths constituted the worst Navy family tragedy since the five Sullivan brothers perished aboard U.S.S. Juneau...
January 7: After the 21 Cliffies who lost their bursar's cards in Paine Hall demanded that they be tried as a group by the Radcliffe Judicial Board the Board said that the girls would have to appear individually or not appear at all. The Board--which includes four student members--said it wanted a chance to "judge each case individually...
March 23: Richard Nixon urged colleges to enforce existing laws for cutting off aid to student protestors, but he said that the Federal government would not intervene to impose order on troubled campuses. Harvard administrators pointed out that no students had ever lost aid because of the Federal provisions, and predicted that Nixon's statement signified no real shift from Johnson administration policies...