Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Already allied planes-U.S. Navy, Marine and Air Force fighter-bombers, plus those of the South Vietnamese-are tightening the noose around the factory-rich region. In the last month, U.S. planes have attacked 13 SAM missile sites, mostly in the complex, one of them only 22 miles from Hanoi, the closest strike yet to the Red capital. For the first time, American aircraft last week lashed out at the vital communications link between Hanoi and Haiphong, loosing 49 tons of bombs on a rail and highway bridge. In two other missions, they blasted the main railway...
...refinery. Last year, exports (mainly beef, lumber and cotton) earned $50 million, 23% more than 1963, and this year may rise another 10%. Some $27 million in Alianza aid has gone into agricultural, educational and communications projects, helped push 1,200 miles of paved roads into the rich but unexploited interior. Though the country's per capita G.N.P. is still one of the lowest in the hemisphere, it is expected to top last year's $146 by 8%, and keep on improving...
...course in 26:14. In the IC4As, he ran 40th in a strong field. He was second against Dartmouth, third against both Cornell and Columbia-Penn, fourth against Brown, and ninth against Providence. In the triangular meet against Princeton and Yale, he finished third behind Allen and Princeton's Rich Geisel...
Even when churchgoers do withhold gifts, the gesture often proves empty. A rich woman who refused a donation to East Texas Baptist College after it desegregated was asked where she expected to find any segregated institution worthy of her beneficence. "That's what's worrying me," she said...
When I went to meet Lady Jackson, I knew the following things about her: her professional name was Barbara Ward, she had written nine books on world affairs, including 1962's popular The Rich Nations and the Poor, she was famous for her articles in the London Economist. her interests were remarkably diverse. For years an expert on Indian economy (1961's Indian and the West), she is now actively engaged on a book dealing with African problems ("hopefully to be finished next year"). Southeast Asia holds particular interest since her husband is a consultant to the Mekong power project...