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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airbase in northeast Thailand. The increased logistical flow will supply not only the dozen U.S. fighter-bomber squadrons now operating in Thailand, but also four additional squadrons due to arrive soon, raising the number of U.S. servicemen in Thailand to 30,000 by year's end. As the main funnel for the flow, the Sattahip sea-air complex will require thousands of U.S. personnel...
...volleys of six to eight, making them more difficult to dodge; a total of 40 SAMs was fired last week. In addition, the Communists have developed a new technique that cuts the warning time that U.S. pilots formerly had when a missile was on its way. But the main menace is still the lethal curtains of conventional antiaircraft fire thrown up from thousands of sites, and which account for 90% of American plane losses...
...together in the spray of a fire hydrant. They depict the plight of slum children with touches of humor and pathos. One story tells of a kid who moves to Manhattan's Tenth Street and has to beat up the toughest boy on the block to be accepted. Main flaw in some books is that the integration is too tidy: illustrations too often show exactly three kids together-one Negro, one Puerto Rican and one white...
...publishers' main effort to correct this has been to produce thin supplementary books that fill the gaps in Negro history, ranging back to the fairly rich empires of 8th century Africa. They show the degradation of U.S. slavery, profile such authentic but little-known Negro leaders as Suffragette Mary Church Terrell and Abolitionist Frederick Douglass. They span the terrors of lynch law and report on today's freedom marchers. Best of the supplements are Doubleday's Zenith Books, written in a sixth-grade vocabulary but with an adult perspective...
Land of the Free has been approved, with minor revisions, for use in all California public schools and in such large cities as Kansas City and St. Louis. So far, its main competitor is a revised edition of Houghton Mifflin's This Is America's Story...