Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time since the massive U.S. military buildup in 1965, South Vietnamese forces (ARVN) bore the brunt of a major ground action in the difficult border terrain. Though the siege last week was lifted and Ben Het remained in allied hands, the results were far from reassuring. "You can see it happening all the way to the beaches," said one U.S. general. "As we move back, they will inch right in behind us and smack hell out of whatever ARVN unit we leave...
...last week when Apollo 8's Colonel Frank Borman flew off with his wife and two sons for a nine-day tour. It was all unofficial -Moscow's invitation came via the Soviet-American Relations Institute-but there were broad hints that Borman would be allowed to see something of the Soviet space complex at Baikonur so far visited by only one Westerner, France's Charles de Gaulle in 1966. In any event, the trip got off to a happy start when Borman tried to say a few words in Russian for the three cosmonauts who greeted...
...children at the track. "I may not know much about horses," said Veeck, "but I do know that we've got to get the young ones in to develop new players." Besides, says Veeck, the father of nine: "Why shouldn't kids be able to see what their...
Lady Godiva. Such talk has drawn flocks of curious adults to Suffolk Downs to see what "Ole Bill," as he calls himself, has been up to since taking over six months ago. The answer, as usual, is plenty. Built in 1935 on the site of an East Boston dump, Suffolk Downs seemed to be reverting to its original state. Veeck took one look at his new property and condemned it as "a combination money machine and concentration camp...
...churches; some have so much fundamentalist fear of the Lord that they respectfully refer to Jesus as "Mr. Christ." The shared excitement over the phenomenon has brought blacks and whites together in a proximity unusual for Port Neches; but the two races sometimes differ on what they see. One white farmer, who claims that he has taken some 25 photographs showing images of "the Christ Child, the Virgin Mary, the Three Wise Men, and angels," scoffed at Negro viewers. "These niggers come away saying they've seen Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy and J.F.K. Boy, those people sure have...