Word: marches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also helped to prettify Rockefeller's ungainly re-entry into the race. On March 21 he had startled the nation by declaring himself out of the active competition on the grounds that most Republican leaders favored Nixon. At a time of national "crisis and confusion," he said then, it would be a disservice "to create more partisan divisions." Last week, proclaiming himself back in, he cited the "gravity of the crisis that we face as a people," adding: "The draft is really, I would say, the result of events...
...fact, the "draft" was visible principally to the weather eye of its chief beholder and beneficiary. Though Rocky tried gamely to defend his withdrawal in March as correct at the time, there seemed little doubt that it had been a blunder compounded by the subsequent developments he mentioned, most notably Lyndon Johnson's abdication and Nixon's continued strength in the polls (the latest Gallup showed him beating all three Democrats). If Rockefeller continued his coyness, his political scouts reported, Nixon probably would be unbeatable...
...valley floor is 2,000 ft. above sea level. The jagged, spiny peaks on either side rise 5,000 ft. to 6,000 ft. and are covered with a triple-canopy jungle 100 ft. tall. Ever since a U.S. Special Forces camp was overrun in the valley in March of 1966, only furtive U.S. reconnaissance patrols have set foot in it. The North Vietnamese turned A Shau into a sanctuary and their greatest storehouse in I Corps. It became a key infiltration route from Laos and the Ho Chi Minh Trail to Hue and Danang...
...Some 20 victims met their fate-burial alive-at the end of a death march from the Redemptorist Church, where they had sought refuge, to Ap Lang Xa Con more than two miles away. Among them was Tran Dien, one of Hue's five Senators in the National Assembly in Saigon...
...should first call at Manhattan's Jewish Museum, where five Irwins are on view. Once there, the viewers are expected to contemplate each work for at least 30 minutes-which is what Irwin does. As time passes, lights and blushes interweave; the shadows on the wall seem to march up and join the painting, until the spectator may well feel as though he were gazing into a galactic nebula or a darkened...