Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Operation Buckskin, in which 1,800 men of Big Red One scouted and cleared 13 sq. kil. some 30 miles northwest of Saigon-advance housekeeping in the area due to be the permanent base of the 2nd Brigade of the newly arrived U.S. 25th Infantry division, late of Hawaii...
Suburbanites who once read two metropolitan dailies-morning and afternoon-now tend to drop the afternoon in favor of the suburban daily. In fast-growing Cobb County, 15 miles northwest of Atlanta, people often bypass the afternoon Atlanta Journal for the local Marietta Journal, which generally runs as much national and international news as the Atlanta paper does, and much more Cobb County news. "We try to assume there are no Detroit papers," says Mark McKee, vice president of the suburban Macomb Daily, which enjoyed a circulation jump from 15,000 to 40,000 during the 134-day Detroit newspaper...
American has plenty of company in its quest to become the third U.S. airline (after Northwest and Pan Am) to span the Pacific. Eastern, Western and Continental have made similar applications to the CAB. United, which already flies to Hawaii, intends to ask for an extension to Tokyo. Delta and TWA will probably also put in bids...
...fuse that detonated the fight was a memorial service for Colonel Rafael Tomás Fernández Domínguez, a rebel killed last May during an abortive raid on the National Palace. Attending the service in the inland city of Santiago, 120 miles northwest of Santo Domingo, were Rebel Commander Francisco Caamaño Deño and 90 members of the rebel elite, all armed to the teeth. Caamaño had been warned about going by President García-Godoy, had been told that the loyalists would consider the trip a provocation. He insisted, took...
...breakfast time on a jungle road in Viet Nam last week, Dwight Owen killed a Communist and saw dozens of Americans die. On patrol with a 1st Infantry Division search-and-destroy unit in the Iron Triangle 35 miles northwest of Saigon, the gangling (6 ft. 4½ in.) 19-year-old was walking down a path munching his B rations when a Viet Cong .50-cal. machine gun opened fire. Then, from all four sides and above, more machine guns, grenade launchers and snipers' rifles poured lead into the detachment, felling two G.I.s instantly. From a thicket where...