Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spring, having come late, remained capricious. Rain and ice, in many states, interrupted the fitful interludes of sun; almost nowhere was it very warm for May. But weather was not the only anomaly of which Americans were aware...
...returned from Operation Birmingham, a sweep by the U.S. 1st Infantry Division through the jungled hills along the Cambodian border in South Viet Nam's War Zone C. For nearly a month, the 8,000 men of the Big Red One had bulled their way through triple-canopied rain forest, often recklessly planting small units of their own men as bait. There were no takers...
Paroled after serving 16 years of a 30-year stretch for atomic spying, Biochemist Harry Gold, 55, emerged from Pennsylvania's Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary into a drenching rain. "The sun is shining for me," beamed Gold. He had told the Government all about his work as a Communist spy, and had testified in 1951 as a vital Government witness in the espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. "I have wiped the slate clean as far as it is possible," he said. "I made a hideous mistake...
...matches were switched from Amherst to the hard courts at Wesleyan because of rain...
...cavalrymen surrounded three Red regiments near Bong Son last week, the bulk of the Communist force slipped furtively away. The enemy battalion that was finally trapped put up a good fight-but reluctantly (see following story). The Reds were saving their strength for the monsoon, waiting for the rain-rich thunderheads that hamper American air strikes. And they were doing a lot of their waiting in the sanctuary of neighboring, "neutral" Cambodia...