Word: toros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Point Coast Guard station, where communications facilities and private buildings have been set up to accommodate the staff members who will accompany him to summer quarters. The station's ball field has been converted into a helicopter pad. Only a ten-minute chopper flight separates Nixon from El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, where Air Force One is to be kept...
...alighted from a commercial airliner at El Toro Marine Air Station, Calif., the major's first words were, "I can hardly wait to see that baby of mine." The major was Charles Robb, just returned from a 13-month tour in Viet Nam and eager to join Wife Lynda Bird and six-month-old Lucinda Desha, whom he had never seen. Wearing an undecorated khaki uniform, Robb agreeably deflected newsmen's questions about his plans. "I've been ducking ambushes in Viet Nam for 13 months," he said, "and now you have to ambush me here...
...lieutenant general, Krulak was given command of Fleet Marine Forces Pacific. His huge bailiwick extended from El Toro, Calif., to Khe Sanh, with overall responsibility for 80,000 Marines fighting in Viet Nam. Krulak helped to mold tactics for a new type of war, combining hard fighting with civic action among the Vietnamese that only North Viet Nam's massive infusion of regular troops could nullify...
...GIRL FROM U.N.C.LE. (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Searching for three missing scientists, U.N.C.L.E.'s girl (April Dancer) poses as a matador-smitten jet setter in "The Horns of the Dilemma Affair." The Latin American Thrush leader (Fernando Lamas) captures April and forces her to play toro to his matador...
...Saturday night's concert. The script eulogized America's "wide prairies" and "tumble-down churches" and was intended to unify the program. Unfortunately, it only succeeded in flattening an evening that included such highly original talents as Joseph Spence, Ed Young and the Southern Fife And Drum Corps, Yomo Toro, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band with Billie and Dede Pierce, and the Lovin' Spoonful. The eagerly anticipated Chuck Berry failed to appear...