Word: trail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, Lyndon Johnson intends to exert all the influence at his command to re pay Democrats who have done their best to support his Great Society programs. This week, with a Labor Day speech in Detroit, the President sets out in earnest on a campaign trail that will carry him to all 50 states before...
When the comet Ikeya-Seki curved around the sun last October, many a stargazer's camera was focused on its fiery trail. But two California Institute of Technology researchers were deter mined to record far more than mere surface glow. And the Astrophysical Journal last week reported remarkable success. Eric Becklin, a graduate student in physics, and James Westphal, a senior research fellow in planetary science, not only obtained the first temperature measurements ever made of a comet, they also gained valuable insight into a comet's composition and behavior...
...chocolate. Milan's San Siro race track pays off in scrip-good only at the track-and customers at Sorrento's Fauno Bar have been reduced to writing checks so as to tip the waiters. Inevitably, there have been floods of funny money: in Bologna, one trail of fake cashier's checks led to a ring of clumsy counterfeiters who made the mistake of misspelling the bank's name...
...Lyndon Johnson, who has promised to stump in all 50 states before November, the dizzying trip was just the beginning of a long campaign trail. White House aides expect him to take off this week in the opposite direction, for Idaho and New Mexico...
...324th Division, which had been driven out of South Viet Nam last month by the U.S. Marines' Operation Hastings. Intelligence reports indicated that the 324th was no stranger to the area; rather than risk running the gauntlet of air reconnaissance and allied strongpoints along the Ho Chi Minh trail, the division had actually infiltrated into the South two months ago, moving straight across the forbidden...