Word: sams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however, the Communists were ready with a vastly improved air-defense setup. The Ho Chi Minh Trail, once a relatively safe run for U.S. pilots, has become a gauntlet of fire that bristles with a variety of antiaircraft weapons. Overlooking the trail from the North Vietnamese border are 22 SAM-2 battalions with more than 130 launchers; their 30-mile-range missiles pose a serious threat to nimble fighters as well as lumbering...
...sanctuary upstairs, the show went on. At one end, three nude young people splashed happily in a kiddies' plastic wading pool. At the other end, Actor Kevin O'Connor (Tom Paine) performed the bathtub scene from Sam Shepard's play Chicago, a scene of despair and rebirth. At a sink, two housewives talked about which detergent was purest...
...Birmingham to cut back on production during a five-day temperature inversion that was creating dangerous air pollution. Mercury discharges, thermal pollution, auto emissions-under Ruckelshaus' direction EPA has demanded (and got) action to help curb them all. EPA's general policy, Ruckelshaus told TIME Correspondent Sam Iker, is "to single out violators with the greatest visibility in order to get the message across...
...Babun brothers, members of a wealthy Cuban family that settled in Miami twelve years ago. Radio Havana claimed that the Babuns are front men for the CIA and that last October the ship took part in a machine-gunning raid on the Cuban seaside town of Boca de Samá, in which several people were killed and wounded. Earlier this month the Cubans seized another Babun freighter, the Lyla Express, near Great Inagua. That ship and its crew are still in Cuba...
...pensive pooch, the canine rendition of Jingle Bells sold 500,000 copies, then vanished into limbo. Recently, Howard Smith of Manhattan FM station WPLJ started plugging it again and received so many inquiries from listeners that he alerted RCA. When officials dug up a copy and played it for Sam Goody, one of their major distributors who also owns a big chain of New York-based record stores, Goody staggered them by ordering 10,000 copies...