Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moments after midnight, 300 Viet Cong guerrillas crept through sugarcane fields toward a camp of U.S. and South Vietnamese Special Forces at Hiephoa, barely 20 miles west of Saigon. Ducking under watchtowers bristling with machine guns and floodlights, the Reds knifed a sentry, forded a three-foot-deep moat, snipped three barbed-wire fences, and slipped into the compound-evidently in collusion with a spy inside, who unlocked the gate. Then, while guerrillas outside opened up with a mortar barrage, the infiltrators attacked to the blast of a bugle...
...Executive when he talks with Secretary of State Dean Rusk at 9:30 a.m. today. Rusk and four other cabinet members had been enroute to Japan for an important trade conference when they received word of President Kennedy's death. They returned immediately to Washington and landed at about midnight...
...exercise: 18 holes involved a cross-country hike of some 4 miles. The coming of the golf cart eliminated the walking, but the game was still a way of getting out into the open air. Now even this is unnecessary. A foursome in snowbound Maine may play Pinehurst at midnight without having to do more than stand up and swing...
When the committee presented a first darft of its report Oct. 14, the Council rejected it on the grounds that it evaded certain philosophical questions. The report recommended the extension of parietal hours until midnight on Fridays before home football games...
Freshman parietal hours are now similar to upper class hours except on Saturday nights when freshman hours extend only to eight o'clock and upper class hours to midnight...