Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ought to be putting some more troops in," says Edmunds. Specialist 4/C Francis E. Rodriguez, 21, of San Juan, Puerto Rico, a rifleman in the 9th's 2nd Brigade, agrees. "I think our biggest mistake was stopping the bombing up North," he says. "As soon as we pull out, there's going to be beaucoup trouble...
...went about his tasks as sergeant of a 25th Division weapons platoon. Jaramillo's unit is remaining in Viet Nam, and his war still has two months to go. "You can have this war and stick it," he told TIME Correspondent John Wilhelm. "Why don't they pull us all out? Either that or decide to win this thing?" Still, despite his frustration, he realizes that matters are not quite that simple. "You can't blame Nixon a lot," he says. "He had to take on the war from Johnson...
Sensitive to the demands of what he calls the "Cripple Crown," Trainer Johnny Longden wanted to pull Majestic...
...Front. At 26, Jones is, by Mets' standards, a grizzled veteran. For years, he has been yearning for a .300-plus batting average. His trouble in the past, he believes, stemmed from well-meaning managers who insisted that he pull the ball toward Shea Stadium's beckoning leftfield fences. Cleon dutifully followed their advice until the middle of the 1968 season, when he decided in a fit of frustration to return to his natural swing. He has been hitting better than .300 ever since. "I'm a line-drive hitter," he explains, "and I have...
...reason, even if there are lunar organisms, terrestrial life has long been exposed to them without any catastrophic results. According to their theory, meteors often strike the moon with enough momentum to knock lunar fragments loose at escape velocities. Most such fragments captured by the earth's gravitational pull would be incinerated as they plunge through the atmosphere. But those in a certain size range, the scientists say, would drift down and arrive on earth relatively unscathed, safely delivering any organisms they might contain...