Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will keep on growing. At the time of the President's speech in July, American forces in Southeast Asia numbered 135,000; today they total nearly a quarter of a million. Returning last week from his seventh visit to Saigon since 1962, Defense .Secretary Robert McNamara reported that while the U.S. has "stopped losing the war," it will be a long, arduous struggle. With him he brought the recommendations from field commanders that U.S. forces in South Viet Nam be increased to 480,000 by 1967. If Hanoi responds in kind, say U.S. military planners in Saigon, a commitment...
...Viet Nam, plans to return there to share Christmas dinner with men of the 8th Cavalry Regiment, the outfit he commanded in Korea. "What we are doing there," he says, "is fighting an island campaign on a land mass." Last week Johnson boarded his JetStar for a one-day visit to the Army's biggest training center, Fort Jackson, in the piney uplands of South Carolina, where 19,655 men are being taught to fight...
...sober poet and scholar, Moore dashed off A Visit From Saint Nicholas, better known as The Night Before Christmas, in 1822 as a fanciful amusement for his own children. Little did he know that his poem would eventually change the image of Saint Nicholas around the world...
...last play concerned three African officials who visit the United States and eventually eat their gorgeous Peace Corps girl guide. "It did not work," Kopit said, because although the Africans were not supposed to be the villains, many people interpreted them as such...
...information was incorporated into a Sept. 20 Newsweek article which included the sentence: "One old peasant woman a purple cotton pajamas dragged Newsweek correspondent Faye Levine off the street during a recent visit to whisper. Tell them in America we want to be free...