Word: plateauing
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...MIGUEL. Life on a sheep ranch in the high plateau country of New Mexico proves adventurous for ten-year-old Miguel (Pat Cardi), whose only real problem is growing...
...Pentagon said that the pilot, Captain Robert D. Hickman, 32, had apparently lost consciousness over the Caribbean, and that the U-2 had probably been guided by its automatic pilot until it ran out of fuel. Hickman's body was found in the debris on a rugged plateau in west-central Bolivia...
...attack on his own. Trouble was, the U.S. command had dispatched a battalion of 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) by Caribou transport and then helicopter from Kontum to join up with the 101st in Tuy Hoa. All night, Thung's mortars blasted away at the U.S. position on a small plateau, but with little effect...
...whistle shrilled and the Communists charged. Within two hours the U.S. defenders were running low on ammunition, but helicopters came in under the U.S. artillery barrage to resupply, then lifted out the American wounded. When the Communists charged across an open paddy area in front of the defenders' plateau, U.S. fighter-bombers showed up promptly to splash napalm on them...
...reasons for the war do not always seem clear to all Americans, few can fail to be moved by the tales of individual valor and self-sacrifice that the conflict has inspired. One of the most gallant of all was written last week on the rugged Kontum plateau by a man who had first won hero credentials on the football field: Army Captain William Stanley Carpenter Jr., 28, the famed "lonely end" and captain of West Point's 1959 team...