Word: marsh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brent Dechene '70 was informed a week after graduation that the room in Stoughton Hall be frequented freshman year had-40 years before-been that of a kid from Council Bluffs, Iowa, named Nathan Marsh Pusey...
...shimmer in the midday sunshine. The light dances off mile after mile of tin-roof shacks, and reflects from the waters of serpentine rivers. On the ground, unfortunately, the city has lost its glitter. Though it remained gracious and unhurried until four or five years ago, reports TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark, Saigon now suffers from the ills that afflict modern cities-and then some. No fewer than 894,000 vehicles, ranging from Lambrettas to lumbering trucks, jam the city's streets. Their fumes engulf Saigon in a noxious blue haze that is killing the city's stately tamarind...
Williams' anger over the slow progress of the fight for equality is more understandable than some of his charges. His depiction of "white power" as "a marsh underfoot for anyone not white . . . treacherous and deadly" is, of course, wildly exaggerated. Far more serious, King himself was less a victim than he was a victor. His leadership brought conscience and cohesion to the cause of black equality, while his faith in the tenets upon which the country was founded forced Americans to recognize the equity of his demands and Congress to take action to meet them...
Over the past two years, efforts to improve ARVN have produced steady, gradual progress, though no one claims any miracles. Reports TIME'S Saigon Bureau Chief Marsh Clark, "Certainly compared with a ragtag Cambodian army and a Communist enemy that has been for the most part desperately eluding and evading, ARVN has taken on a new and refreshing look. But ARVN has changed only by comparison. By any measure, it has not suddenly changed from a marginally efficient overall force to a superarmy...
SAIGON Bureau Chief Marsh Clark was in Hong Kong last week for a week of much-needed rest and relaxation. Then President Nixon sent U.S. and South Vietnamese forces into Cambodia. But Clark and his men reacted with military dispatch. Swiftly, TIME'S team of correspondents was deploying to meet the magazine's needs...