Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plantations and twelve-foot-high elephant grass, the Khe Sanh Valley was defended by a company of U.S. Marines guarding its airstrip and three companies of South Vietnamese in the Special Forces camp at Lang Vei (see map). The North Vietnamese, hidden from air observation by monsoon clouds and rain, had stealthily and expertly moved in through Laos and fortified the three hills into a vast redoubt for at least two regiments of the 325th NVA Division...
...section wears out, a new one can easily be laid in to replace it. Stanford University is now using AstroTurf for all its outdoor freshman track-and-field events, except shotput and discus, and finds that it drains so quickly that it can be used even in the rain. The Seattle school board, saddled with its dirt-covered Memorial Stadium in which half the games have been played in mud, has voted to spend $175,000 to cover it with artificial turf...
Play was cancelled Saturday and Sunday because of rain and cold. And Monday everyone was forced to play 36 holes even though the weather remained chilly and wet. The fairways were sopped, and Penn State's wide-open par 69 course played very long...
Harvard qualified three sailors for the New England Intercollegiate Sailing. Association championships in a weekend of racing marred by calms and rain on Saturday and gale winds on Sunday...
...baseball and track teams received all expenses paid vacations to New Haven and Poughkeepsie this weekend to watch the rain. The diamondemen's game with Eastern League front-runner Army will be rescheduled only if it bears on this League championship. The thinclad's meet with Yale, which will be the basis for selection of the combined team to race against Oxford and Cambridge this summer, will be rescheduled today by the athletic directors...