Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's sailing team, winner of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Cup in 1965, will face nine of the nation's top crews at the U.S Naval Academy next weekend to try to recapture the trophy that has become, in its three year history, emblematic of college sailing supremacy...
Nonetheless, a note of optimism permeated the conference. "There are many signs that we are at a favorable turning point," the President said at the outset. That theme was elaborated in detail as U.S. and South Vietnamese officials met on Nimitz Hill, the U.S. naval headquarters overlooking the Philippine Sea. Also in clear view from the spacious verandas on the Hill was a tangible reminder of the larger stakes-and risks-in the Viet Nam war: the Soviet trawler Gidrofon, laden with electronic snooping gear, lying just beyond the three-mile limit in order to monitor U.S. B-52 flights...
...song, that old rhetorical question "Which Way America?" There was applause, a standing ovation from the Belmont housewives and the kids and the old men and--yes--some of the Harvards and Cliffies. Not one of those 40 minute -- standing ovations you get at West Point or the Naval Academy, but a nice standing ovation--as Sayre was eager to point out later...
...bombing of Thai Nguyen was the second major increase in the cost of aggression for Hanoi in two weeks, following the decision to mine North Vietnamese rivers and bombard the Red homeland from naval guns at sea and long-range artillery firing across the border (TIME, March 10). It was by far the most serious warning yet administered to Ho Chi Minh that American restraint has its limits. Unless Hanoi's supply and infiltration of South Viet Nam slows, its sanctuaries are likely to continue to shrink and the roster of fresh targets to grow ever longer...
Died. Mischa Auer, 61, character actor who played seedy aristocrats, slightly frayed remittance men, or mad Cossacks in scores of Hollywood movies in the 1930s and 1940s (My Man Godfrey, Destry Rides Again), the orphaned son of a czarist naval officer, who at one point during the Bolshevik revolution roamed Russia with a pack of parentless children before a grandfather brought him to the U.S., eventually made his way to Hollywood, where his borsch-and-sour-cream accent and rolling-eyed comedy won him fame; of a heart attack; in Rome...