Word: tacke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While it was still under way, Sir Francis Chichester's 226-day single-handed circumnavigation of the globe in the 53-ft. ketch Gipsy Moth IV received more popular acclaim than an armada of Magellans, Drakes and Joshua Slocums. Fleet Street printed reams on his every tack; BBC cameras traced his tortuous rounding of Cape Horn; the Queen knighted him in midpassage. Sailors and landlubbers alike marveled at the ability of a 65-year-old man, who had won a bout with lung cancer eight years earlier, to survive everything from chronic leaks to a capsizing in the Tasman...
Whether the NVA masses will ever at tack Khe Sanh became a matter of growing doubt and deepening divisions. Some ranking officers wondered if the enemy buildup there was only a diversion for the urban offensive further south or for a bypass thrust at Quang Tri or Danang. There was also a dawning realization that, for all President Johnson's warning against another Dienbienphu, Khe Sanh could be overrun by overwhelming human-wave attacks. A top U.S. general in Saigon reckoned that the base could be taken by 25,000 men in concerted assaults, "but a hell...
...every Reservist was so dismayed. "It couldn't have come at a better time," allowed Lieut. Commander John Brame, a member of Erv Johnson's Naval At tack Squadron VA776 at Los Alamitos, Calif. Brame, a real estate salesman, had just concluded a big project and currently has "nothing in escrow." Air Force 2nd Lieut. Jim Riordan, 25, of the 150th Tactical Fighter Group, Albuquerque, N. Mex., was all ready to go and "even looking forward to it. In the back of my mind, I figured we would be called...
...which are covered with hair. Number 193 is the naked ape called man. Anthropologists have filled libraries with evidence that shows how far man has grown away from the ape, but in this latest of the current spate of ape books, British Zoologist Desmond Morris takes a different tack...
Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley took the opposite tack, calling for passage of stricter state and federal gun-control laws because "there are too many people walking around with guns. We cannot have rule by gun law in our streets." Daley told the city council that he would ask for as many more police as he thought necessary. He used the obviously exaggerated figure of 5,000 more police, and-while the council responded with cheers and a standing ovation -one of its leaders said that they would approve any addition, "7,000 or 70,000." The council...