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...wartime present in Loc Ninh was embodied in four understrength Vietnamese irregular force companies and an American Special Forces unit, both of which were assigned to guard the town's airstrip and the district sub-sector headquarters, a rambling set of old French buildings and bunkers ringed by concertina wire and crowned by an improbable, rickety observation tower. Down the airstrip from the headquarters (see map) was an only slightly more substantial, diamond-shaped Special Forces camp, its walls made of logs and earthworks like something out of the old American West. To the Viet Cong's main...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Death Among the Rubber Trees | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

Liquid oxygen (LOX) is used as an oxidizer in rocket engines and in steel production. Liquid hydrogen has been proposed as the fuel for the supersonic transport and as the propellant in a nuclear rocket. In bubble chambers, it allows scientists to trace the path of sub-atomic particles. Gas companies are liquefying natural gas for more convenient and economical storage, and liquid nitrogen is now used to freeze the earth around excavations so that mud will not slide into the work area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cryogenics: Not-So-Common Cold | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

...main reason for such a calamity would be a sub-par showing by Crimson goalie Jay Breese. The junior netminder, very recently the number three man behind John Axten and Dick Locksley, has suddenly become the man of the hour as far as Harvard soccer fortunes are concerned...

Author: By Andrew Jamison, | Title: Upset-Minded Dartmouth Soccer Squad Will Take On Crimson This Afternoon | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

...depot system was adopted after pressure from the Gordon Linen Service which sub-contracts the HSA service. Harvard had been the only one of forty schools serviced by Gordon which did not use a depet system. The company had advised the HSA that they would not continue the contract at the present price unless deliveries to individual rooms were eliminated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUC Tables Linen Tax Proposal; Will Complete Own Parietal Report | 10/24/1967 | See Source »

Following the mob swarming from the train, you pass sub shops and a nightclub on your way to the grandstand. Behind you is an amusement park where thrill seekers of a tamer sort ride up and down wooden hills. You wade through a parking lot jammed with Pontiacs and Caddies. At the gate you pay your 50 cents and mumble...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phaile, | Title: Hard Day's Night at Wonderland | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

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