Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Doug Schmidt paused for a moment, leaned further back in his armchair, and lifted a coke bottle to his lips. When he put down the bottle, he said, "I guess what I'm saying is that this little germ got planted three or four years ago, and has spread hierarchically...
Mixing Freely. The highlight of the Nixons' five-day visit was a dinner party for eleven couples, including fellow Annenberg house guests Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Among those who wheeled past the well-guarded gates of the electric-fenced 220-acre spread in Rolls-Royces and Cadillacs were Frank Sinatra, escorting longtime Companion Barbara Marx; U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Leonard Firestone and his wife Barbara; Standard Oil of Indiana Chairman John Swearingen and his wife Bonnie; Los Angeles Auto Dealer Holmes Tuttle, a star G.O.P. fund raiser, and his wife Virginia; and onetime Radio Star Freeman Gosden (Amos...
...government's dilemma is that it lacks the troops to defend Phnom-Penh and at the same time reopen the Mekong, a critical problem that would not be solved by the receipt of more military-aid funds from the U.S. Cambodian forces around the capital are already spread dangerously thin, the result of the nearly total destruction of a division in that area during this year's fighting. The high command feels it should not risk taking any soldiers away from Phnom-Penh; yet the river must be reopened to convoys, or the capital will eventually be lost...
...Communist victory in South Viet Nam. Still, Vietnamese Communists have been able to put enormous pressure on Saigon even with Phnom-Penh in Lon Nol's hands, and the fall of his government is not likely to make a crucial difference. Beyond that, there remain obstacles to the spread of Communist influence in Southeast Asia. Neighboring Thailand, presumably the next endangered domino, is well equipped to resist Vietnamese influence. Communist insurgents in the northeast have achieved little so far, and Thailand has sufficient economic and military strength-including 25,000 U.S. military personnel and 350 aircraft-to successfully counter...
Bolduc still had the talent, but it wasn't being used much. His original line with Dave Bell and Kevin Burke, was electrifying crowds with its blazing speed, but coach Billy Cleary decided to spread the wealth. So after Harvard finished third in the Great Lakes Tourney December 28. Cleary broke up the line, and Bolduc ended up with Kevin Carr and Paul Haley, two of Harvard's premier penalty killers...