Word: river
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most students take their drugs out across the playing fields near the Exeter River by a tree made famous in John Knowles' novel, A Separate Peace. They use little acid, and some amphetamines. They never use speed to study for exams. They use it for escape
...help, he dragged the injured men to safety through a storm of fire. > Navy Boatswain's Mate First Class James E. Williams, 37, is the unlikeliest-looking hero. He is a roly-poly father of five with 20 years of Navy service. In October 1966, in a Mekong River backwater, Williams led two patrol boats into a mass of sampans and junks loaded with Viet Cong troopers. Outnumbered and outgunned, the patrol sank 28 sampans, damaged 25 more and captured six enemy vessels. >Richard A. Pittman, 22, is a civilian now. Back in July 1966, as a Marine lance...
...fields in the north and the green, leafy mountain towns of the west to downtown Santo Domingo, Balaguer has launched an ambitious renovation of the Dominican Republic and its morale, helped along by $45 million in U.S. aid. New warehouses are sprouting up along the capital's Ozama River, replacing those burned down in the bitter fighting three years ago. More than 80% of the capital's buildings and homes have been repainted in gleaming whites, blues, roses and mustard yellows. In the northwestern suburbs, broad fields have given way to block upon block of middle-and upper...
...Hudson River breeze was so fresh that for a moment it looked as if Lady Bird Johnson, 55, and Happy Rockefeller, 41, were trying out hippie hairstyles. Lady Bird had come...
...trying to knock them out, came to the bridge to take personal command of the assault. It nearly cost him his life. After firing several bursts from his AR-15 at the enemy, he himself was hit in the thigh and leg. An American MP floated Loan down the river under the protection of the floor boards of the docks and stilt-houses until he could be safely evacuated. Loan's deputy, however, died in action, as did the commander of Tan Son Nhut Airbase. But because of the remarkably swift reaction of the city...