Word: north
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...APRIL of 1965, the nation paused--just for a moment--it paused. A few months earlier it had begun to bomb North Vietnam, and a few months later it was to stumble reeling into Watts; but for one illusory moment history seemed to neither ebb nor flow. So the nation could afford to pause, pause to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the New Yorker...
...crew's third in the last seven years and made the Crimson the favorite in this weekend's races for the New England Intercollegiate Championships. The meet will be co-hosted by Harvard and Tufts, and the winner of the competition will travel to Seattle for the North American Intercollegiate Title...
...Real Targets. Strong, prospering and politically stable under the government of President Chung Hee Park, South Koreans nonetheless worry about national morale. North Korea's downing of the U.S. EC-121 electronic intelligence plane two weeks ago set off cries for quick retaliation. Kim Chai Soon, spokesman for the ruling Democratic Republican Party, says that "the U.S. should have at least bombed the North Korean air base from which the MIGs took off to attack the plane...
That is a sentiment most South Koreans share. They know that what really animates North Korea's hatred of the U.S. is the American defense of South Korea, and that they are the real targets of Pyongyang's aggression. Any military humiliation of the U.S. is a humiliation of South Korea as well-and could, if repeated often enough, eventually undermine the government's credibility with South Korea's peasants...
...oppressively inward-pressing parallel lines. As De Maria points out, "There is a terrific double energy yielded by the tightness of geometric form combined with the feeling of infinite space." His current "Three Continents" project will superimpose marks carved on the surfaces of deserts in Africa, India and North America onto a triple-exposure aerial photograph. Seems like a lot of trouble, not counting the cost of the airplane, but De Maria spent two weeks in January bulldozing stripes in the Sahara and has pictures to show...