Word: sams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ending one of the war's longstanding taboos, Air Force and Navy planes smashed SAM missile sites well within the 35-mile radius of Hanoi that had hitherto been carefully bypassed by U.S. bombers. By week's end, 13 of 22 known SAM sites in North Viet Nam had been damaged or destroyed...
...waspish will to win on the TV show What's My Line?; and she covered occasional front-page events for the Hearstpapers with a flair rarely equaled by the competition. On any assignment she made herself so conspicuous that she often became part of the story. After Dr. Sam Sheppard's 1954 conviction for murder, the New York Journal-American was moved to run a headline: DOROTHY KILGALLEN SHOCKED...
...Essay on "What Big Daddy, Alias Uncle Sam, Will Do for YOU" [Nov. 5], you ask, "Can anyone recall seeing a protester burn up his social security card?" The answer is yes. A photograph in The Providence Journal showed a psychology student at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque burning his social security card in protest against having to work for a living...
Streaking out of low cloud cover just seaward of Haiphong, the U.S. Air Force Voodoo flew smack into a sky full of flak. As his reconnaissance fighter belched flame from its starboard engine, Captain Norman Huggins, 36, of Sumter, S.C., knew his search for North Vietnamese SAM sites was over for the day. He saw a finger-shaped island below him, surrounded by a wrinkled sea studded with enemy junks. The only hope for survival lay in his yellow and black ejection handles. Whoosh went the canopy, pow went the 37-mm. cartridge under his seat, pop went the parachute...
Even if prolonged by other Government grants, such as one for studying air pollution, those dear old happy schooldays must end sometime. And now comes the day to go to work for a living. Here again, Uncle Sam stands ready with a helpful hand. In one year some 345,000 high school seniors received counseling from the U.S. Employment Service, and more than 113,000 were placed in permanent jobs; although their need is not so great, graduating collegians receive the same benefit, and the employment service has offices set up on many campuses. As further aids, the service puts...