Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The effect this will have on American life can only be comprehended when one tries to imagine a United States without Mothers' Day, United States Steel, or the U.S. Marines. Never before have the Yankees lost in four games; it is as if the American Way of Life itself had...
More than that, by the late 1970s the Marines might be using 4,000-m.p.h. Saturn rockets to hurl 1,200-man battalions from the U.S. to global hot spots -for example, from Camp Lejeune, N.C. to Africa in 80 minutes.
Experts Differ. Soon thereafter, the Reds overran the neighboring town of Damdoi. But this time the Communists made the mistake of staying too long. Seven hours after the Viet Cong occupied the town, government marines, airlifted to the scene in U.S. helicopters, counterattacked. Half the marine force blocked the Reds...
Overalls & Ivy. Even so, as of 7:30 on the morning of the great day, there were probably more cops than marchers on the assembly grounds around the Washington Monument. The District of Columbia's police chief, Robert V. Murray, had assembled a force of 5,900 men -including...
Born. To Robert Francis Kennedy, 37, Attorney General of the U.S., and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, 34: their eighth child, fifth son, and second July 4th baby (the other: eldest daughter Kathleen, 12), whose imminent arrival a week ahead of schedule brought the Marines on the double with a helicopter to...