Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carried out the next day. Two dozen prop-driven Vietnamese Skyraiders and an unspecified number of U.S. jets from the big Danang airbase 375 miles north of Saigon plastered a major guerrilla staging and communications center at Vinhlinh, five miles north of the 17th parallel. Leading the Vietnamese wave was South Viet Nam's Vice Air Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, resplendent in a white crash helmet streaked with orange, a violet scarf and a black flying suit. Ky's plane took four hits, and he himself was grazed by shrapnel. Despite heavy ground fire, only one plane...
Black Is the Color. None of these new writers has yet stamped a unique signature on the times. They are rogue talents, unpredictable, disturbing and powerfully individual. Thus they form no cohesive school or even a wave. Nonetheless, critics of late have taken to calling them "black humorists," which is probably as good a tag as any. Among them are such comic writers as Bruce Jay Friedman and Joseph Heller, both of whose first novels were bestsellers. They also include such gifted but less widely read novelists as John Barth and James Purdy; they are perhaps best known for names...
...North Viet Nam for supplies, the rebels certainly look to Hanoi for strategy and inspiration. It is therefore plausible that the President ordered the air attacks to stun the North into caution, thereby gaining for the tottering regime in Saigon a short recess in the hostilities. The second wave of strikes yesterday bears out this interpretation, for these attacks were not preceeded by fresh North Vietnamese or Viet Cong provocation; they cannot be construed as "retalliation...
...hand over an anti-Huong petition to Taylor. But then the mob, urged on by the monks, who blared orders over battery-powered bullhorns, refused to disperse. The troops donned gas masks and broke it up with doses of tear gas and swinging clubs. Four blocks away a wave of shouting youths commanded by four monks marched on the U.S. Information Service library, smashed its glass doors and windows...
Knights in Shining Chinos. The Great Society, or any society, needs manpower as well as brainpower. The scholastically brilliant will invent new computers, but the academically average must know how to run them. And although the U.S. has always provided an outstanding education to some, the wave of reform has given a better education to all. Says Carnegie Corporation President John Gardner, chairman of the presidential task force on educational goals: "Gifted and non-gifted students are being challenged to perform closer to the limit of their abilities...