Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fading Away. Assigning top priority to making Saigon secure, the U.S. last month committed three combat battal ions to Operation Rang Dong, a long-range, large-scale drive that sent 2,500 U.S. troops against Viet Cong forces operating in the three provincial districts south and east of the city. Last week, to clear the Communists out of the area to Saigon's north, American forces launched the largest offensive of the war to date, sending 28 battalions and 34 batteries of artillery into the 25-sq.-mi. wedge known as the Iron Triangle, a notorious Communist strong hold...
Sometimes the school is so unprepared for the unexpected gift that the donor almost gets away. In 1959, for example, Karl D. Umrath, a retired cash-register salesman, rang up the switchboard operator at St. Louis' Washington University one Saturday morning and told her that he wanted to give the university $1,000,000. Some-what dubious, the operator tried in vain to reach Chancellor Thomas H. Eliot, got no answers from several other officials. Umrath was just about to hang up when she finally connected him with the dean of the college of liberal arts. "I want...
...Windsor Castle, the bells rang in the curfew tower, but otherwise it wasn't a very royal birthday party. Turning 18, Britain's Prince Charles simply had coffee and buns with eight friends at Scotland's Gordonstoun School, where he is cramming for his university entrance exams. Had he wanted a real birthday blowout, the lad could well have afforded it. His income from inherited properties has now been raised to $84,000 per annum. Other advantages of his official coming of age: he replaces his father as regent-designate, would directly assume his mother...
...last 4 min. of the 7 min. 8 sec. that he was in the ring with Clay. And it's a good thing he can't. In the first round, Cassius contented himself with giving the Cat a dancing lesson and a nosebleed. Then, when the bell rang for Round 2, Trainer Dundee ordered: "Go after him. Use a chopping right." Clay's first chopping right dropped Williams for a count of two; his second caught the Cat flush on the mouth so hard that his teeth sliced right through his rubber mouthpiece and gashed his lower...
...famed Russian bells rang out as Lowell celebrated its first football victory in three years, 18-0, over Dunster. The Bellboys were sparked by the addition of sophomore quarterback Sandy Putnam, who threw two scoring passes to flanker Phil Bragsted, and ran for the third touchdown...