Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moscow, which claimed that a U.S. bomb had hit a barge only six feet from the Soviet freighter Pereslavl-Zalessky, moored in the city's harbor, severely damaging the Russian ship. The U.S. State Department apologized, but it noted that it had warned that ships entering Haiphong harbor ran the risk of damage despite the best efforts of U.S. pilots to prevent such incidents...
Although Martin's recommendations are almost completely opposite to U.S. plans or inventions, the Saigon government and press took great offense. Saigon newspapers charged Martin with being a "colonialist," and demanded his expulsion. One paper ran a poem accusing him of every known vice and concluding: "You s.o.b., and your father and your mother and all your family and all your ancestors." More direct action was also threatened. Getting word that ARVN soldiers planned to sack the villa in which Newsweek is quartered, Martin had bars put on the windows...
This time Terrell jumped off to a strong 2-0 lead and ran the third game of the best of five match to 13-13. Terrell twice drove the ball past Martin to move to a 15-13 lead and triple match point. But Martin hung on desperately, winning the game, 16-15, and stayed alive...
...corn and meat prices on world markets plus pruning of its government deficit and an economic stabilization plan that has lured large amounts of foreign investment. U.S. war purchases and spending by U.S. visitors have helped to create big surpluses for South Viet Nam, Thailand and Taiwan. South Korea ran up a payments surplus of some $100 million last year, partly by exporting such military items as jungle boots, uniforms and galvanized steel for troops fighting in Viet Nam. One result is spreading prosperity-including even traffic jams -in Korean cities. Men are turning to woolen suits and many women...
...Times also ran a picture of Pammie Phillips, a typical housewife. "It took Pammie Phillips," said the paper, "eight days to learn she was a Times reader. She had her first real chance to read the Times while her son Sammy was occupied discovering how to put sand in his navel." Next year, presumably, it'll be Sammy's turn to be a Times reader...