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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...determined as Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara would eventually face full-scale congressional scrutiny. Last week South Carolina's L. Mendel Rivers, a McNamara critic who became chairman of the House Armed Services Committee a year ago, announced that he will soon launch not one but four parallel investigations of McNamara's policies...
...traveling in the west-bound lane in Framingham when his care left the roadway and traveled parallel to it for about 100 yards before striking a bridge abutment. He was taken to the Framingham Union, Hospital and was pronounced dead of a fractured skull on arrival...
...about half the length of a standard History thesis -- and would receive some form of Departmental honors. Some tutors in the Department were convinced that the seminar would eventually become more popular than the thesis. At the least, the seminars were designed to bring together seniors and tutors with parallel interests and to satisfy the tutors' itch to teach...
...late. What finally stirred Lyndon's choler was the Viet Cong attack on two U.S. camps at Pleiku in February. Eight Americans died, 125 were wounded. "I've had enough of this," raged the President. Next day, scores of U.S. Navy jets roared beyond the 17th parallel for the first time to plaster "bloodless" military installations in North Viet Nam. In return, the Viet Cong blew up a U.S. enlisted men's billet in the port city of Qui Nhon. This time the U.S. and South Viet Nam replied with a joint 160-plane raid...
Melting Martian Frost. Tombaugh found that the largest crater in the best Mariner photograph is located where visual observations have spotted an oasis. Parallel markings in the southern part of the crater coincide with the position of a short canal mapped by Astronomer Percival Lowell...