Word: warmups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best known yarns of such seafaring types as Sir Francis Drake, Joseph Conrad and Richard Henry Dana, stitched together with Old Sailor Chichester's own brief commentary on such dangers as icebergs, scurvy, sea monsters and gales, it is predictably absorbing. Still, it is obviously only a warmup for what Chichester undoubtedly plans as a rousing encore: an account of his own epic voyage...
Zone D last week felt the first warmup. Radar-controlled B-52 bombers came over in ten waves at 30,000 ft. to rain down fire on the triple-canopy jungle concealing enemy movements. They dropped magnesium incendiary bomblets, which fell first in large clusters, then broke apart at 8,000 ft. and burst into flame as they plunged into a jungle already dried tinder-brown in places by chemical defoliants. For hours afterwards, dense smoke rolled 15,000 ft. into the air above yet another portion of the Viet Cong's rapidly shrinking sanctuaries...
Some varsity teams around here get two warmup contests before they have to take on tough opposition, but there's no such luxury for the Harvard soccer team. Three days after opening the season against Tufts, the Crimson booters entertain Amherst on the field adjoining the tennis courts...
...fellow Latin American heads of state and President Johnson to get together later this year and discuss economic integration and other regional problems of the hemisphere. The response was overwhelmingly in favor, and only the time and place remained to be set. Last week, in a small warmup to the bigger meeting, President Frei flew off to Bogotá for a threeday, five-nation "Andean summit...
Unlike most mammoth science and engineering projects, SLAC has had unusually smooth and efficient sailing. Its total cost will be $114 million, precisely the amount appropriated five years ago for SLAC's sponsor, the Atomic Energy Commission. In a warmup test last month, it produced an 18.4 BEV beam and performed so well that its Stanford operators decided to begin allotting time for experiments to start next November, several months ahead of schedule. Its only serious problem, caused by the stubborn refusal of Woodside, a nearby suburb, to allow use of its land for SLAC...