Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quit because "it took all the satisfaction and joy out of flying. You always had to fly where they wanted. You sat there in this big plush seat with your earphones on, the radio chattering, and the engine noise drowning out almost everything." Now, in the lovely lake valley near Issaquah, Wash., Emrich operates an airport devoted exclusively to sky sports-flying, sailplaning, parachute jumping and ballooning. He is his own best customer, and was the first pilot to fly a sailplane across Mount Rainier. "I see so many people who are in ruts and aren't having...
...building materials. Con trol Data, which introduced two time-shared computers last week, will open the U.S.'s biggest sharing center in Los Angeles next year. General Electric al ready has 88 customers, last week added a New York center to its service centers in Phoenix and Valley Forge...
...they demonstrated the blessings of the poverty program, other local residents-mostly the pappies' wives and small children-harvested potatoes behind a mule-drawn plow on Will Handshoe's land beside Upper Quicksand Creek. Will, 72, who is distant kin to Floyd and unchallenged patriarch of the valley, had foresightedly taken the day off to go squirrel hunting...
...David Sapp. For $200 he won an hour with City Manager Thomas Fletcher, which he wanted in order to argue against high-rise apartments going up near the beach at La Jolla. For another $220, he bought all the space for a day on the marquees of the Mission Valley Shopping Center. His message, to be spelled out on December 17, will be a salute to his son: "Congratulations, Joey Sapp. Happy Bar Mitzvah...
...Viet Cong have been in Binh Dinh, and in the largest operation of the war, 14,000 allied troops went in at three points to try to kill a sizable batch of them. Two hundred helicopters made 358 sorties to drop 5,500 men into Suoi Ca Valley, where a V.C. regiment was reported. Another 2,500 of the First Team were out to clear "Happy Valley" next door to the west, while Vietnamese marines and army battalions closed in from the coast. But as all too often in the frustrating war, there was virtually nobody home. Even where...