Word: ship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...found your story on "The Julio Incident" [March 8] particularly disheartening. An armed American ship stood by, while three helpless men who sought only freedom were repeatedly overrun by a Cuban vessel in international waters. The result was a defeat, not so much for this nation as for the spirit of common humanity, to which those unfortunate men in the lifeboat were appealing...
...guided missive to the Berkshire Eagle from his home town of Stockbridge, Mass. "I am offering in all sobriety a reward of $25,000," he wrote, "to anyone who devises and successfully executes a plan to draft Lyndon B. Johnson, put him in uniform complete with butterfly net, and ship him off to the rice paddies." Potential applicants for the prize may be put off by Gibson's payoff record: he volunteered to play honky-tonk piano at a local fund-raising benefit for Senator Eugene McCarthy-and reneged the moment the McCarthyites tried to take...
Street is one of the developers of radio navigation and group and ship radar. He has done important research on cosmic rays and on devices for detecting atomic particles. He is co-author of the a college text, General Physics. Since 1966, he has been assistant dean of the Faculty...
...troop commitments to Viet Nam are being escalated by at least two. Marine Captain Charles Robb, 28, has been scheduled all along to ship out to Viet Nam, and his orders now call for him to leave at the end of the month. But Pat Nugent, 24, is a surprise addition to the fighting forces. At his own request, Airman First Class Nugent has been transferred from a Texas Air National Guard unit to the Washington-based 113th Tactical Fighter Wing. He reports for active duty next week and expects to go to Viet...
LITTLE warning flags are going up all over. Semaphoric signals of distress. In America the warning signs are being manufactured daily; artifacts which if interpreted correctly tell the whole story: The ship is going down. Not torpedoed, but sunk on purpose by the crazy crew...