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...spirit of the Sutherland-Chafee statement was for nearly complete co-operation with the congressional committees, although their long, careful explanation made clear several reasons for using the fifth amendment, and colleges that were floundering in a slough of uncertainty eagerly embraced the statement as an answer to their confusion. In January, Rutgers fired two professors who had taken the fifth before the HUAC. The Sutherland-Chafee "doctrine" was used as justification...
...Viet Cong were clearly willing to fight when they were engaged, whether in the delta or farther north. Up in Quang Tin province, near Danang, a helilift of South Vietnamese paras, hoping to provoke a big battle, made contact with the Communists in a slough of serried hills, scuffled briefly but bloodily, then withdrew to regroup. The Viet Cong did not press their advantage, so the government troops waded in again. By week's end more than 300 Reds had been killed. Government losses were 34 dead-plus two U.S. Marine Corps advisers killed by ground fire...
...extension division of the state's higher education system to handle returning veterans who could not get into the established universities. Its site was Vanport, the sprawling federal housing development built for wartime workers on low marshland near the Columbia River. "The U by the slough," it was called. Two years later, the campus was washed into the river by a flood; only the students and 92 books were salvaged. Classes were temporarily housed in the abandoned downtown Portland administration buildings of the Oregon shipyards. In 1952 the school moved into a former Portland high school building...
...smack on top of an oil well. Their house-and 400 others around it-is on an oilfield owned by the Christiana Oil Corp. So valuable has the surface of the aging field become that Christiana has closed and cemented over its producing wells. It has converted the tidal slough on which they stood into a posh residential marina called Huntington Harbour, which sits on the Pacific Ocean south of Los Angeles. Like more and more U.S. companies, it has discovered that land can pay a prettier profit than almost any other investment...
With Tomatoes & Bacon. Today, Washington game officials plant 350,000 steelhead each year in Barnaby Slough, a well-hidden pool 50 miles up the Skagit from Puget Sound. Protected by wardens with shotguns from natural predators (mink, otter, kingfishers, mergansers), fattened on fish meal, they are released at the age of a year. The results are astonishing. This year, Washington fishermen will catch upwards of 225,000 steelheads compared...