Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lurleen Wallace as her segregationist husband's puppet candidate in a cynical attempt to evade the state's constitutional provision that prohibits a Governor from succeeding himself (see following story). Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King denounced Lurleen's victory as "a protest vote against the tide of inevitable progress...
...Minh Trail. This main southbound network has been improved by 200 miles of new roads surfaced with crushed stone and often concealed by bamboo trellises covered with branches. Down it flow an estimated 5,500 to 7,000 men each month. In an effort to stem the tide, Guam-based B-52 Stratoforts last week carpet-bombed infiltration outlets in South Viet Nam's "Zone C" for the eighth time in eleven days. But only Ma and his antique, prop-driven T-28s have been hitting the Sihanouk Trail...
...Crimson lost two matches on the 18th green and one on the 19th, and those three turned the tide for the Elis. Two Harvard golfers carved their best scores all year out of the rolling fairways and tricky greens of Yale Golf Course. But it was all in vain...
...Guam-based B-52s unloaded 300 tons of high explosives on the Mu Gia Pass infiltration route into South Viet Nam; Navy jets hit a SAM site near Vinh and sank 248 junks moving men and arms south by convoy. Whether the MIG commitment could partially turn that aerial tide remained to be seen...
...goodwill tour of South America as the captain of the University of California tennis team. According to Blatchford, he felt the need to start a community development group after Vice President Nixon was attacked in his limousine by mobs in Caracas. Although ACCION has helped reverse the tide of militant anti-Americanism, it is possible that Nixon would be attacked again today if he showed his face in Caracas...