Word: parallele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heaviest fighting occurred in the I Corps sector abutting the 17th parallel in the northernmost provinces, where the Reds, having apparently abandoned hopes of slicing South Viet Nam in two at the Central Highlands, are now concentrating their efforts. In Operation Texas, six battalions of allied forces dashed to the aid of a beleaguered outpost at An Hao, then found themselves tangling with four battalions of hardcore Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops. In five days they wiped out 485 of the attackers and crippled the unit as a fighting force...
Total Immersion. No introvert, Humphrey wastes little time brooding on this or any other problem that is patently beyond his control. He sees the road ahead as two parallel lines. First, in full awareness that his prospects for the foreseeable future rest almost entirely in Lyndon Johnson's hands, he intends to discharge his vice-presidential duties precisely as the President prescribes. Second, Humphrey aims to maintain his own political links around the country, has already stumped enthusiastically on behalf of Democratic candidates and the party coffers, and will doubtless intensify his campaign efforts as the November elections...
...Chinese see preparations for moving north of the 17th parallel...
University of California students, University of Chicago Professor Hans Morgenthau, one of academe's bitterest Johnson baiters, reached for a preposterous historical parallel. The Administration's insistence on negotiating with Hanoi rather than directly with the Viet Cong, he averred, was "like George III of England saying he won't negotiate with Washington and Hamilton, only with Louis...
...club, which has drawn about 55 Dunsterites in its first week, is fully inequipped with all forms of muscle-building contraptions. In addition to seven barbells, seven pairs of dumbells, and 1500 pounds of weights, it boasts such instruments of torture as a leg-press machine, a parallel dipping bar, a calf machine, and an abdominal board...