Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first heavy snow of winter fell along India's disputed Himalayan frontier with Red China last week-and with it came a rain of mortar and machine-gun fire. In a two-pronged attack, thousands of Chinese troops overwhelmed precarious Indian outposts both in Ladakh and 900 miles away in the North East Frontier Agency. Indian troops retreated to better defense positions, though at least one frontier station fought to the last round before it fell. Flying without fighter support, lumbering Indian transports ran into a hail of Chinese antiaircraft fire as they tried to resupply remote border outposts...
...Walt Alston, 50, another one-year, $42,000 contract to manage the National League's not-quite-victorious Los Angeles Dodgers. While the World Series was delayed by rain, idle sportswriters amused themselves by speculating that the job would go to Leo ("The Lip") Durocher, who insisted that the Bums would not have kicked the pennant away to the Giants had he been boss. But General Manager Buzzy Bavasi decided to stick with mild, long-suffering Alston, and he in turn let on that Durocher could come back too, as a coach. Shrugged Bavasi: "If Alston can live with...
Despite a drizzling rain during the meet, the pace was extremely fast, including some of the best times turned in by Crimson harriers in a so far unimpressive season...
Running in the mud through rain and wind, the Crimson bested both the Big Red and the Bruins in what coach Bill McCurdy has called "two of the best cross country races I've ever seen...
...last, the varsity distance men will have their hands full (rain or shine) with the University of Massachusetts on Tuesday. "That will be our toughest race until the Big Three in November," according to McCurdy...