Word: servicemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...redwood screen. (An island resident says that she "really thinks most of the people feel sorry that he now has to live the way he has to.") There are rumors that one of the other two houses on the bay side of Bay Lane is currently occupied by Secret Servicemen, who control all entry to the street. Mrs. Perry O'Neal, whose husband owns the fifth bayside house on Bay Lane, says that she is "delighted to have the Nixons as neighbors. We know them only slightly, and we don't bother them." Key Biscayners are used...
DURING the Korean War, brainwashing of U.S. prisoners by Chinese and North Koreans produced alarming numbers of forced "confessions," collaborators and turncoats. As a result, President Eisenhower issued an executive order in 1955 establishing a Code of Conduct for U.S. servicemen. Among its provisions...
Plenty of Fluids. But by that time, Needles, a tiny California desert town on the edge of the Dead Mountains, had suffered the first confirmed mainland outbreak of Hong Kong flu, which struck some 500 people after travelers and servicemen on leave returned home from the Pacific. Since then, Hong Kong cases have been confirmed in Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Colorado and North Carolina. Hardest hit was Puer to Rico, with almost 55,000 cases in an epidemic that reached its peak in late October. The heaviest mortality rate was that of Riverview, Philadelphia's home for the indigent, where...
...more than 1,000 U.S. servicemen now held as prisoners-of-war in Asia, life is unpleasant at best. But durance has been considerably less vile for the eleven G.I.s held by Cambodia since their landing craft strayed out of Vietnamese waters July 17. Their host, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, seized on Cambodia's 15th anniversary celebrations in Phnompenh last week to prove himself a more than gracious jailer...
Miss Gove testified that she and the two men were interviewing servicemen and offering them copies of a newspaper called "G.I. in Vietnam" in the bus terminal. "We asked them about Army life, what they were being trained for at Fort Devens, and their views on the war in Vietnam. If they weren't interested in talking to us, we left them alone; if they were interested, we offered them copies of the paper," Miss Gove said...