Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state's Second District (including Ann Arbor), Republicans ousted Democratic Freshman Weston Vivian, an engineering Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, by the simple expedient of recruiting a Ph.D. of their own (in speech), State Representative Marvin L. Esch, 39. In the Upper Peninsula, Republican Businessman Philip E. Ruppe bounced a fourth L.B.J. coattail product, Raymond Clevenger, despite frenetic federal pork-barreling on the latter's behalf?including a post office for microscopic Christmas, Mich, (pop. 120), which now foresees a future as a yuletide mailing center...
...problem of the mountain men has been centuries in the making. Primitive aborigines who wear loincloths and worship ghosts, they are descended from natives who occupied the Indo-Chinese peninsula long before the Chinese-related Vietnamese moved south some 1,700 years ago. The Vietnamese took over the rice-rich coastal plains and the Mekong Valley, pushing the aborigines into the rugged, jungle-thick mountains to the northwest...
...drinks require vodka. Members of the Burlingame Country Club, down the peninsula from San Francisco, have a special drink called the Menlo, a mixture of lemon syrup, soda water, sugar and gin. In Southern California, the Golden Cadillac (Galliano liqueur, crème de cacao, orange juice, cream) is catching on. Chicagoans have taken up the Black Martini (dry vermouth and blackberry brandy), the Brave Bull (tequila and Kahlua) and the Blue Blazer (mulled brandy, Southern Comfort and water). Washingtonians are drinking a new depth charge called the Kraatz No. 1 Special, invented by Hawaiian Businessman Donald Kraatz. The recipe...
...columns soon isolated the Nationalists in their cities and drew them out for costly battles that chewed up whole divisions without gaining ground for either side. Bled and battered, the Nationalist-held cities began to fall: by October 1948, Lin's forces held Mukden, Changchun and the Liaotung Peninsula, and had killed or captured 400,000 of Chiang's troops (including 36 generals replete with their arsenals). Then, advancing an average of six miles a day, Lin struck out for Peking, which fell 1"5 weeks later...
...been trying to come to grips with the sporadic Communist terrorism along the country's northeast frontier with Laos. Bangkok has devoted less attention to a similar but smaller wave of trouble far to the south, along the thin isthmus of Thailand that forms part of the Malay Peninsula. There, a pattern of forced "tax" collections, Red propaganda leaflets and occasional clashes with police patrols has suggested the presence of a regular second front of Communist guerrillas...