Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NORTHEAST -Connecticut (16 votes...
...some 5,700 U.S. Marines and a 500-man South Vietnamese Ranger battalion. The Marines were not anxious to make a stand there: they sat at the end of a 27-mile supply line on Communist-interdicted Highway 9, the weather was turning bad with the onset of the Northeast monsoon, and they had done little in the way of fortifying the isolated defense complex...
...neutrality, either. For all its hostility, Roxbury wants the Ed School's open active aid for other than adivsory purposes. It sees Harvard's name and influence as powerful leverage on the school system. When the Ed School hosted school system administrators and ghetto leaders from all over the Northeast last January 22, most Roxbury leaders came from the meeting satisfied, not because of any dialogue with the administrators, but because the Ed School invitation made it possible for blacks from five states to caucus during the conference. It was inadvertent advocacy, but advocacy nonetheless...
...February, the newly merged company got off to a fast start with an order from American Airlines of 50 subsonic DC-10s capable of carrying up to 343 passengers. But after that, competing Lockheed Aircraft got all the business with its L-1011. Lockheed signed up TWA, Eastern, Delta, Northeast, and a British airplane sales company for a total of 172 planes. McDonnell Douglas, which will not break even until it sells around 100 airbuses, grimly admitted that unless other orders came in, the program would be scrapped. Now there is no danger of that...
Slings of Artillery. Operation Pegasus had begun only four days previously under the command of Major General John J. Tolson, 53, commander of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) in Viet Nam. It was launched from Landing Zone Stud in the Khe Sui Soi river valley eleven miles northeast of Khe Sanh; its first task was to open Route 9, which had been in enemy hands since last August. Its overall goal: to create a ground supply line to Khe Sanh and to destroy the enemy around the Marine camp. To do the job, Tolson...