Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exchange was touched off by, of all people, Dean Rusk. Breaking a seven-month silence on the subject of Viet Nam, the former Secretary of State told a University of Wisconsin audience that there had recently been an "almost total lack" of North Vietnamese infiltration into the South. Since such a development could be an important signal of Hanoi's willingness to reduce the level of combat, newsmen the next morning eagerly clustered around the State Department's spokesman, Robert J. McCloskey...
Early in the battle, Bacon's predecessor as battalion commander, Lieut. Colonel Eli P. Howard Jr., was killed when his helicopter was shot down; seven others died with him, including A.P. Photographer Oliver Noonan. The 3rd Battalion troops, including Alpha Company, set out to fight their way to the crash site. In temperatures that rose to well over 100° F. in the heavy, stale air trapped among the hills, Alpha Company experienced its first violent contact with the enemy, suffering three dead and two wounded in a fierce firefight at the foot of a low hill called...
...Teddy Kennedy has been treated by the press was given particular attention in the survey. By a ratio of more than five to one, Americans agree that newspapers and newsmagazines have given Kennedy fair treatment; seven to one they say television has. The approbation is qualified however: fewer than one out of three will go so far as to say the media in general have been "very fair" in their Kennedy coverage. Not surprisingly, Harris found that the groups that generally support Kennedy -youth, Easterners, blacks and women -are more critical of the press; those who do not-the elderly...
...Mets promptly lost their first nine games. They finally won one on their tenth try, but defeat was more their style. Baseball, according to a hoary cliche, is a game of inches. The Mets lost by feet, even yards, and they did so with agonizing regularity. In their first seven seasons they threw away the awesome total of 737 games while winning only 394 (see chart, page 51). Only the staunchest of supporters could have sat in the stands through those long afternoons and borne the relentless booting of ground balls, the repeated mistakes on the base paths, the dreary...
After a year of seasoning with the Jacksonville Mets, Seaver was summoned to New York in 1967. He became an overnight sensation. He pitched 18 complete games, and won 16 while chalking up 170 strikeouts. Of his 13-losses, seven were by one run. He was named the National League's Rookie of the Year...