Word: van
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Michigan State course is only four miles long and relatively flat in comparison to the Van Cortland Park course that Hewlett and Allen have run so impresively on the last two weeks...
Although United States involvement has increased, the development of the political and military situation in Vietnam leaves much to be desired. In the past year Saigon has been ruled by Diem, Minh, Khanh, and now Tran Van Huong. The "strategic hamlet" program has been a failure; since January over 1000 government officials have been kidnaped or assassinated by the Viet Cong; battles with the Viet Cong have been larger than ever: and Viet Cong fire-power, especially against aircraft, has become more effective every month...
...fastest time ever run by a collegian on the Van Cortlandt Park course...
...fields as varied as mining, retailing, proprietary drugs and investment banking, and turn out such well-known products as S. &H. Green Stamps, Caloric ranges, Johnson's Wax, Mennen toiletries, Ex-Lax and Old Fitzgerald-the last of which has a president with the wonderful name of "Pappy" Van Winkle...
...winning the $10,000 Delta Prize, this short but flatulent novel was the unanimous choice of three eminent judges-Critic Leslie Fiedler, and Novelists Mary McCarthy and Walter van Tilburg Clark, who is quoted as having found it "gigantically laughable." Well, maybe. But unlike Candy, the bestselling pornographic novel that passes itself off as a satire on pornography, Drive, He Said is serious as all get out. Most of its fun is unintentional. Thus, in one chapter, Basketball Player Hector Bloom and his chick Olive spend a busy evening nuzzling each other outside a diner, are chased over hill...