Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long the big silver planes roared in over the Plain of Jars and touched down in a rooster tail of dust on the dirt strip at Lat Sen. There were Air America Caribous, C-123s and two four-engined C-130s borrowed from U.S. Air Force bases in Thailand. On some, their markings were painted over in an attempt to maintain the fiction that there is no U.S. military involvement in Laos. The engines never stopped. As doors opened, Laotian and American officials herded refugees aboard, many clutching terrified children as they leaned into the blast of the prop wash...
Dave Powlison. Steve Krause, and Greg Huff are the distance men who give the Crimson an edge in those events, while captain Mike Cahalan and Paul Horvitz are the Crimson's dependable sprinters. But Harvard's Dave Silver has another tough task this weekend in trying to defeat divers John Huffstutler and Collins Landstreet...
...November, 1968, Kerry was trained to be the skipper of a patrol boat for Vietnamese rivers. For the next five months, until April of 1969, Kerry was the commanding Lieutenant of a patrol boat in the Mekong Delta. He was wounded slightly on three different occasions and received a Silver Star for bravery. His patrol boat took part in Operation Sealords, mostly scouting out Viet Cong villages and transporting South Vietnamese marines to various destinations up and down narrow rivers covered with heavy foliage on either side. One time Kerry was ordered to destroy a Viet Cong village but disobeyed...
Dartmouth received an excellent team effort, but it was double victories by diver Mike Brown and two great sophomores-Jim Gottschalk and Chris Cartensen-the proved fatal. Harvard had hoped that its best diver, Dave Silver could take first in one of the two dives, but Brown was not to be beaten...
...Peter had very short hair and insisted on getting married in a big church ceremony. I didn't understand his life and he didn't understand my friends." Peter admits, "I was trying to grab all the straight paraphernalia ? the country club, have a silver pattern register at Tiffany's." His new wife, Susan, was the stepdaughter of Noah Dietrich, an ex-assistant of Howard Hughes. His best man was a young millionaire named Eugene ("Stormy") McDonald...