Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DAVID A. CUNNISON Great River...
...straight streets of the old quarter enabled Communist gunners to knock them out from half a mile away. With only three of their original twelve APCs still operative, the ARVN troopers started the same house-to-house combat as the Marines on the other side of the fetid Perfume River...
...predawn bit of derring-do, Communist frogmen swam down the Perfume and neatly dropped the center span of the last remaining bridge over the river, despite the fact that the allies held both bridgeheads. Boats thus became the main means of evacuation and supply, and each boat ran a gauntlet of NVA sniper fire. But at week's end the NVA pockets of resistance were slowly shrinking, and all of the city except a part of the Citadel had been seized by the allies...
Rarely did any baby ever have such a baptism. The sacramental salt for the ceremony came from Andalusia-a symbol, said the baby's father, of that region's graciousness and warmth. The water was flown in from the River Jordan. The minister was the Archbishop of Madrid, and the guests included members of three royal families (Greece, Bulgaria and Spain), two Spanish Cabinet ministers and Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Thus last week, in the 20-room Zarzuela Palace on the outskirts of Madrid, Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso y Todos los Santos de Borbón, who might...
Fore & Aft Patios. Nashville's Nauta-Line, largest manufacturer in the field, has quadrupled production of its 33-ft. and 43-ft. houseboats in the past 18 months, is now making 2,000 houseboats a year. At the River Queen Boat Works in Gary, Ind., sales have increased 100% in the past two years. Now Chris-Craft, the nation's largest cruiser manufacturer, has just swallowed its pride after three years of intensive market research and gone into houseboats with a 33-footer that costs $9,500, sleeps six, does up to 40 m.p.h...