Word: winterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past twelve months. This summation and judgment was the responsibility of writer and editor, who have watched the Viet Nam story with intense attention week after week. Writer Ronald Kriss has written many of our stories on Viet Nam action and policy during the year, including last winter's cover story on General Westmoreland (Feb. 19). Senior Editor Michael Demarest has been editing THE NATION section since the buildup in Viet Nam began...
...Ayub's winter-bound capital of Rawalpindi, war fever still runs high. Sandbags are piled around government buildings, air-raid trenches kept clear and ready. In the brunt of the summer's fighting, war readiness has become a way of life. In Lahore, scene of much of last summer's fighting, hardy Pakistanis last week nibbled sweets and kept their horse-driven tongas ready to carry rice and curry to frontline soldiers. "Sons of Islam are meant to fight," said one, "not to allow their guns to rust...
...other festival action, Cornell, the class of the Ivies this winter, romped to the ECAC Holiday championship with a 5-2 win over St. Lawrence, and Toronto smashed Michigan Tech, defending NCAA champs, 6 to 2, in the Great Lakes Invitational...
...since the first winter of World War I, when Britons and Germans laid down their arms to play soccer together, had a war been stopped for Christmas. It was at best an edgy respite whose mood at the start was reflected in a news photo of two G.I.s relaxing in the jungle, their weapons at the ready. But as it turned out there were repeated Viet Cong actions and it was quickly dubbed the "bullet-riddled truce." One Marine patrol near Chu Lai suffered heavy casualties...
...horseback to warn the Kentucky countryside that the Indians were on the rampage. At 14, he rode 100 miles in 48 hours carrying military dispatches. He trekked to the Upper Missouri in 1819, saw Sante Fe as a prisoner of the Spaniards in 1820, spent a bitter winter on the Great Plains, became an Indian trader at Fort Osage...