Word: weather
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...response to these questions represents the weakest point in the Administration's case. "Review of action makes many reported contacts and torpedoes fired appear doubtful," wired Captain John Herrick, commander of the patrol. "Freak weather effects and overeager sonarman may have accounted for many reports. No actual visual sightings by Maddox, suggest complete evaluation before any further action." With access to classified information, Herrick has since changed his mind. McNamara says that he has "unimpeachable" intelligence, probably intercepted North Vietnamese radio messages, to verify independently not only that Hanoi planned an attack on the U.S. destroyers but also that...
...lives. Time after time, whole companies were pinned down against their rubble shields by a single, well-placed machine-gunner. A persistent drizzle socked in their air cover for most of the week. Even when air support came in, Communist artillery made the most of the low-flying weather: in 446 sorties by U.S. helicopters, Communist guns scored strikes against no fewer than 60. Said Lieut. General Robert E. Cushman Jr., commander of 1 Corps forces: "The gods of war were in their favor...
...days last week, Bobby and a caravan of 36 cars crammed with out-of-state reporters, committee staffers and electronic gear burned up the dirt-topped back roads of eastern Kentucky's poverty-blighted Wolfe, Breathitt, Knott, Harlan and Letcher counties, halting in hidden hollows at weather-bleached wood and tar-paper shanties sagging with neglect. And in spavined one-horse communities named Neon, Grassy Creek, Mousie, Fisty, Jackhorn and Cody, ragged, slack-eyed men and women and listless children with bellies taut from hunger spoke of their need...
From yesterday's fad, the cult of physical fitness has developed into a national middle-aged obsession. Its manifestations are everywhere. Through numberless public parks, in every sort of weather, straggle the beflanneled registrants of Run for Your Life programs, jogging up to five miles a day, sometimes at the very respectable rate of seven minutes per mile. In thousands of gyms, yoga and dance studios, reducing emporiums and downtown athletic clubs, an uncomputed and possibly unprecedented tonnage of soft and mature flesh jiggles, bends, hops, kicks, creaks and groans. Washington's Governor Dan Evans organized...
...25th annual Williams Winter Carnival was cancelled Sunday afternoon because of inclement weather, but not before Willie Draper of Harvard captured the slalom title...