Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even trickier for Major Dick Desing, 36, who flies night missions out of Ubon; he must swoop low through enemy fire, seeking out moving trucks and barges with only the glow of his flares to guide him. "You see all the flak coming up, all the guns flashing on the ground," he says. "But you're too busy to be afraid. You're tracking, moving, dropping bombs and climbing." When it is all over and the pilot heads back to Thailand, the reaction is almost always the same: a dry, cotton mouth. "After that, the rest...
...Grand Plan. Wilson may have conned his party-he got a thunderous standing ovation-but it would be harder to convince his countrymen. Britain's mood is one of drift and doubt. While everyone agrees that Wilson faces severe problems with Britain's low productivity, featherbedding unions and stodgy managements, a feeling persists that he has failed to come up with any grand plan that might produce a lasting solution. According to the London Daily Mail's latest poll, 80% of the electorate feels that the government is not doing well on the economic front. Wilson...
...Cabinet will have the complexion of a government of national unity. The only thing that he seems uncertain about is the date of his own inauguration. Astrologers cautioned against holding it on Nov. 1 as planned, since the moon will be spent, its crescent thin and the tides low. Thieu is now considering four other dates: Nov. 2, the first day of the moon's new cycle, or Nov. 3, 7 or 9. All, by astrological lights, are lucky days...
Throwing only a hundred pitches in the nine innings. Lonborg showed brilliant control, keeping the ball low and getting most batters to hit grass hoppers to the infielders...
...talk well moistened at lunches, cocktail bashes and elegant dinners. To provide a suitably opulent setting, Brazil hastily completed the late architect Affonso Eduardo Reidy's beachfront Museum of Modern Art, despite some peculiarly Latin difficulties. University students wrecked the bulldozers that were about to demolish their subsidized, low-price restaurant, which blocked access to the imposing museum. Brazil's central bank bought off the students with a promise of free meals for 20 days, and quickly built a substitute restaurant near...