Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made bulldozers, they had widened the old French road running down the valley center, Route 548, to six lanes, and built a brand-new road called 547A that branched off from another road, Route 547, and emerged from the valley aimed straight at the heart of Hue. Such passable weather as A Shau ever knows comes in April and May, and three weeks ago, under the tightest secrecy of any allied operation of the war, Operation Delaware was launched to punch into the Communists' craggy lair...
...Cavalry (Airmobile), two of whose heliborne brigades began leapfrogging in from the north. The first day was a near disaster, as Communist gunners destroyed or damaged 20 of the Air Cav's helicopters, including the first giant Flying Crane to be lost in the war. Off-and-on weather threw artillery reinforcement and supply drops off schedule...
Whether the allied force of some 12,000 men would attempt to root out the North Vietnamese gunners dug into the hills above them remained to be seen. But, in any case, the allies are not likely to elect to stay in A Shau, given the weather and the number of men who would be tied down in de fending it. Instead, Operation Delaware aimed to even an old score for the men of the Special Forces who fell there in 1966-and to destroy all the equipment and tools of war the Communists have so painstakingly assembled...
...jumped another $10.50 in four days to close the week at a record $688-an extraordinary 59 times 1967 earnings. And why not? After the last split, a 3-for-2 deal in 1966, when the stock was trading around $370, IBM shares took only eight months to 1) weather the worst general market break in four years and 2) climb past its pre-split price...
...haven't got vaseline on my face. I am thinking that vaseline is a big petroleum interest, probably makes napalm, and anyway it's too greasy. I hear over the walky-talky that Hamilton has been busted and that the sundial people are moving to Low and Fayer-weather to obstruct the police. I put vaseline on my face. I also put vaseline on my hands and arms and legs above the socks and a cigarette filter in each nostril and carefully refold my plastic bag gas mask so I'll be able to put it me, quickly with...