Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...highlands. "I gave them their head," recalls Westmoreland, "and told them their mission was to pursue and destroy the enemy." In the foothills of the Chu Pong massif, practically in Cambodia's backyard, the brigade found its quarry. Helilifted to a spot called Landing Zone X Ray, a battalion of cavalrymen found itself smack in the midst of the 66th North Vietnamese regiment. One platoon was cut off on a ridge and badly mauled. Two others were lured into a trap and wiped out; some of the U.S. wounded were shot or decapitated, and at least one was left...
...proposed paper will be called the B.U. Gazette, and will rival the B.U. News, the university-owned weekly. According to Ray Mungo, associate editor of the News and one of the paper's organizers, the Gazette is an attempt to establish a student newspaper in a university which holds that "there is no role for a specifically student newspaper...
...hospital corpsmen lived in the Metropole. Sixteen were injured in the blast; 14, though injured, spent the next twelve hours aiding the injured as well as carrying out their assigned hospital tasks. On the "blast" side of the Metropole, doctors' offices, treatment rooms, an eye clinic, the X-ray department and bacteriology laboratory were demolished. In the main hospital building, two patients were injured. But assistance by a surgical team from the Army 3rd Field Hospital enabled us to gain "medical control" of the situation by late afternoon the same day. We are small, but wound tight...
Instead, after a brief behind-the-scenes tussle between the Governors and the more conservative Capitol Hill leaders, the policy group decided in the interest of party unity to adopt a diplomatic resolution based on an earlier statement by National Committee Chairman Ray Bliss. It urged all Republicans to "reject membership in any radical or extremist organization, including any which attempts to use the Republican Party for its own ends or any which seeks to undermine the basic principles of American freedom and constitutional government...
Federal Communications Commissioner Robert E. Lee, 53, was sending out some signals complaining that the badinage on late-night television is "getting pretty close to indecency." On Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, for instance, where Actor Ray Milland recently told that ever-so-funny story about having to go to the bathroom in a swimming pool while filming a scene. "I don't want the industry to degenerate," said Lee. He just wants the broadcasters to censor themselves a little for the public. In private, grinned the commissioner, "I'm one of the greatest off-color storytellers...