Word: marching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Phoenix, which under an earlier pacifist owner had sailed pre-test voyages into American and Russian A-bomb testing zones in the Pacific, also sailed to North Vietnam in March...
...entry is dated Oct. 7, the day before he was captured in a ravine in the Quebrada del Yuro, a bullet in his left thigh and his M-l semi-automatic carbine shot out of his hands. "The 17 of us left [a canyon] under a waning moon, the march was very tiresome and we left many traces in the canyon where we were," he wrote. "At two we stopped to rest, since it was useless to continue advancing." The sad crusade was near...
...believe it. Still, being very, very rich is not quite as much fun as it used to be. We've gradually lost the old exuberance of my parents' day. No more marble palaces or French chateaux imported stone by stone; no more parties reminiscent of the triumphal march in Aida. Instead of encouraging the peasantry to goggle enviously through our iron fences or line the roadside as we take the air be- hind a four-in-hand of matched greys, we ride around invisibly in Buicks and keep our houses as well screened from the road as possible...
...Army combat equipment (a 69-ton shovel crane), has 28 wheels to distribute its weight so that it can land on remote dirt airstrips or even pastures. The plane promises to revolutionize military logistics and strategy. Inspecting the craft at Lockheed's Marietta, Ga., plant back in March, President Johnson noted that 88 ordinary cargo planes would be necessary to move an infantry brigade from Hawaii to Viet Nam-and the brigade's heaviest equipment would have to go by ship. By contrast, just 20 C-5s could handle the whole operation. The plane, said the President, ushers...
...Colleges are not churches, clinics, or even parents. Whether or not a student burns a draft card, participates in a civil rights march, engages in premarital or extramarital sexual activity, becomes pregnant, attends church, sleeps all day or drinks all night, is not really the concern of an educational institution...