Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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lian D. Benham of Kabul, Afghanistan (Social Studies); Robert G. Damus of San Bernadino, Calif. (Philosophy); Ronald E. Davis of Bloomfield, N.Y. (Applied Math); Gilbert S. Doctorow of Spring Valley, N.Y. (History); David M. Engel of Ann Arbor, Mich. (History and Literature); Stephen A. Hart of New York (Social Relations); Daniel R. Issacson of Oakland, Calif. (Mathematics); John P. Oleson of Deare River, N.Y. (Clissics); John M. Pesando of Andover (Biochemistry); Charles A. Pine of Phoeniz, Ariz. (Matrematics); A.B. Schmookler of New Brighton, Minn. (Social Relations); Jeffrey P. Swope of Ann Arbor, Mich. (Government) and Steven Varga-Golovcsenko of Huntington...
...enemy was so deeply dug into a valley floor that the Marines, despite reinforcements and withering air and artillery strikes, failed to dislodge the Reds in all-day fighting. So, in the dark of night, a Marine assault force stormed in, supported by AC-47 Dragonships. Next morning the sun rose on the bodies of 450 enemy dead littering the valley, at the cost of 54 Marines killed...
Incongruous as a lemonade stand in Death Valley and just as refreshing, a wee minipark opened on East 53rd Street in Manhattan amidst the jam-packed office buildings, hotels and stores. Donated to the city just for the joy of it by CBS Board Chairman William S. Paley, 65, it is only 42 ft. wide and 100 ft. deep, yet Paley Park offers pooped passers-by a respite at little white tables and chairs in a setting of geraniums, honey locust trees, and a 20-ft. waterfall whose roar all but drowns out the yowl of city traffic. Paley opened...
...mind, or the war changed its character. When the draft called, he refused to report and wrote a letter to the President to explain why. He wrote not as a dissident citizen to the all-powerful President of the U.S. but haughtily as a Boston Lowell to a Hudson Valley Roosevelt: "You will understand how painful such a decision is for an American whose family traditions, like your own, have always found their fulfillment in maintaining, through responsible participation in both civil and military services, our country's freedom and honor...
...Boulogne, where Charles de Gaulle lived as Premier just after World War II. Now it is filled with the superb and costly bibelots that the duke inherited from his ancestors. For weekends and warm weather, the Windsors have rebuilt as a country house an old mill in the valley of the Chevreuse near Paris. There the duke is most at home, working alongside three professional gardeners among his flowers or walking his pugs in the countryside. In February or March, the Windsors sail for New York, where they rent an apartment in the Waldorf Towers. Part of their U.S. sojourn...