Word: yd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Laotian means Village of Villages), a tiny cluster of about 100 shacks on stilts noted more for the rice whisky its inhabitants produce than for anything else. But the Ban Ban area is dotted with camouflaged antiaircraft batteries designed to protect the key bridge near by, a 50-yd.-long span across the Nam Mat River used by the Reds in their supply line from North Viet Nam. When the Communists shot down a camera-carrying jet, the U.S. started sending armed escorts. When one of the latter was downed, U.S. fighter-bombers clobbered the offending Palhet Lao guns. Recon...
Harney was obviously embarrassed about the whole thing when he showed up at Los Angeles' 6,840-yd. Rancho Park course to defend his title last week. "The odds against a repeat victory must be 1,000 to 1," he told reporters. Actually, they were nowhere near that bad: 15 to 1. Jack Nicklaus, 1964's top money winner (at $113,284) was sitting this one out. Of course, that still left Ken Venturi, Billy Casper, Tony Lema-and Arnold Palmer, who shot a 66 in practice and happily allowed as how he was playing "pretty good...
...Louisiana State: a 13-10 squeaker over Syracuse, in the Sugar Bowl at New Orleans, on a 28-yd. field goal by Doug Moreau-his 14th in eleven games, and the fifth time this season that his talented toe has provided L.S.U. with its margin of victory...
...Michigan: a 34-7 rout of Oregon State, in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena. Spotting the upset-minded Beavers a 7-0 lead, the Big Ten Champion Wolverines roared back on the running of 201-Ib. Fullback Mel Anthony, who scored three times, once on an 84-yd. dash -longest in the Rose Bowl's 51-year history...
...Boston cross-country meet this fall, won't beat Walt Hewlett but looks like a sure thing for second place in the two-mile. The only other Eagle runner reasonably sure of finishing that high is sprinter Roland Tessier, who should place right behind Aggrey Awori in the 40-yd. dash...