Word: namee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week some two to three thousand U.S. Marines, most of them now dead or wounded, gave the nation a name to stand beside those of Concord Bridge, the Bonhomme Richard, the Alamo, Little Big Horn and Belleau Wood. The name was Tarawa...
...Pacific toward Japan. Robert Sherrod, the TIME and LIFE correspondent who filed the story of Tarawa in 1943 after leaping into neck-deep water and wading ashore with the fifth wave of Marines to hit the beach, has long been saddened by the realization that the island's name no longer evokes an instant, horrified response. "A whole generation," he said, "has matured without knowledge of a battle the like of which had never happened before, and in all probability will never happen again." A former editor of the Saturday Evening Post and now a freelance journalist, Sherrod returned...
Hefner and the Duchess of Alba, to name a few. The results have made Oriana, at 37, Italy's leading woman journalist with a following in many other countries as well. She has just published a collection of her interviews...
...When it became apparent that the game would run late, NBC TV President Don Durgin and Sports Vice President Carl Lindemann, both watching the telecast at home in the New York City suburbs, conferred by telephone. Lindemann then called the home of the game's operations manager -whose name NBC insists is a "deep dark secret"-and informed him of the decision to stay with the game until its conclusion...
Jackpot. Such rowdy Big Top atmosphere is new to Las Vegas, where the winning casino formula has been to pack in the crowds with the lure of big-name entertainers, then leave the customers with nothing else to tempt them but gambling. Jay Sarno, 47, who two years ago opened the garish, pseudo-Roman Caesar's Palace, is trying a new approach. As principal stockholder of Circus Circus, he is counting on the casino's being so different that everybody who visits Las Vegas will have to stop in once out of plain curiosity. And if the carnival...