Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hué, sitting on the lush banks of the Perfume River, that the Communists, recognizing both its symbolic importance and the greater likelihood of some support from the population, made a maximum effort. There, for the time being, they enjoyed their most signal success. The seat of South Viet Nam's militant Buddhists and the home of many disaffected university students, Hué has long been South Viet Nam's capital of discontent. Into Hué last week Giap sent elements of five of his North Vietnamese regulars, supported by Viet Cong local soldiers?an estimated 2,000 men in all. They seized...
...U.S.S. Pueblo went routinely about her tasks as an electronic scavenger. She sampled the water around her with bottles strung from her sides, and listened for submarines below. She sniffed the skies above with the thickets of antennas that bristle from her superstructure, and scooped up every electronic signal for miles around with a formidable array of supersecret equipment...
...Stop." Using international signal flags, the PT boat asked Pueblo's nationality. When she identified herself as American, the Korean boat signaled: "Heave to or I will open fire." Pueblo replied: "I am in international waters." She maintained her course at two-thirds speed (8 knots), with the PT boat never very far away. An hour later, three more North Korean vessels came slashing in from the southwest. One was a 30-knot, Soviet-built subchaser, the others 40-knot PT boats. "Follow in my wake," signaled one of the small vessels. "I have a pilot aboard." The Korean...
...Cover) No green light flared from a track-side tower; no warning whistle echoed down the line. But no trainman missed the signal. When the Supreme Court gave its approval last week to the merger of the Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads, it was clearing the track for the nation's entire rail system. It was giving railroad management permission to highball into the future...
...casino until 6 a.m. In the afternoon, he organized an exhibition tennis match, pitting Pancho Segura and Dina Merrill against Pancho Gonzales and Janet Leigh. And when George (Paper Lion) Plimpton leaped onto the court with a cry of "Tennis, anyone?" the Beautiful People sensibly took it as a signal to leap back into their limousines and depart...