Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Division since they arrived in Viet Nam last November. Assigned to guard the port of Qui Nhon and open long stretches of Highway 1 and Highway 19, the Tigers have accomplished in eight months what eluded the French and Vietnamese for 20 years: securing the lush and prosperous coastal plain of Binh Dinh province. The Koreans have brought some 170,000 Vietnamese in Binh Dinh under government control, and together with the men of the Korean Blue Dragon Marine Brigade in Phu Yen, have killed 3,386 Viet Cong and captured 695 more while losing only 290 of their...
...Western Australia, census takers from Humbug Scrub to Boologooroo prowled the inner edge of the Great Australian Bight in search of opal gougers, oil drillers, boundary riders and randomly wandering rabbiters. One truck driver from Adelaide was asked to deliver and collect questionnaires on the lonely "No Tree" Plain when he went out to pick up rabbits from the wandering hunters. He got five tons of rabbits and 200 questionnaires...
...announced his return to the silver tube and so now has Uncle Fultie. Beginning in the fall on 30 syndicated stations, New York's Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, 71, will conduct a weekly color series called not Life Is Worth Living, as it was before, but just plain The Bishop Sheen Program...
...dawn. In the afternoons, Victor Herbert conducted concerts on the porch of an elegant hotel;-in the evenings, Caruso and John McCormack sang outdoors. Such was the summer scene at the turn of the century at Saratoga Springs, New York's celebrated resort for socialites, tycoons and just plain millionaires...
...Stanford medics hastened to ex plain that they recognized that "as a result of President Eisenhower's heart attack, his devotion to golf and Dr. Paul Dudley White, we are now accumulating fairly substantial evidence that physical activity will prevent or retard certain types of cardiovascular disease." And "almost everyone agrees that graded exercise will enhance recovery from most traumatic and surgical conditions." What the two were arguing was that widespread and unquestioning acceptance of exercise has impeded the sort of research that would help give doctors the knowledge that they need to prescribe the right activity...