Word: northeastward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sporadic artillery fire. Route 9, its supply line to the coast, tied down two Marine battalions on anti-ambush duty. In short, Khe Sanh remained a costly place to defend. U.S. commanders now intend to move the western an chor of U.S. defenses south of the DMZ eleven miles northeastward to Landing Zone Stud, the site from which the relief of Khe Sanh, Operation Pegasus, was launched three months ago. Stud, fairly securely nestled in the Khe Sui Soi River valley and now being fortified by U.S. Seabees, has a good airstrip. Unlike Khe Sanh, it is outside...
...Newark Airport; the DC-8 at 5,000 ft. in a stacking area over Preston check point, more than five miles south of Linden. As traffic moved, ARTC controllers directed the TWA plane to drop to 5,000 ft. and then, proceeding under control of La Guardia, to swing northeastward into the prescribed Instrument Landing System beam (ILS) to La Guardia's Runway 4 (see map). To the radar watchers the Connie appeared to be following the routine instructions...
...privacy. On May 19, for instance, the camera pictured a bright, square cloud in an isolated position about 50 miles northwest of Wichita Falls, Texas (see cut). Weathermen had no previous reports of such a formation. They looked up the records and found that this peculiar cloud had moved northeastward and raked Oklahoma with four tornadoes. When future weather satellites take to space, one mission will be to watch for clouds of this sort and warn against them before they start doing damage...