Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...south, Savannakhet, General Phoumi countered by convening most of the members of the National Assembly. They voted Prince Souvanna out of office and named as the new Premier Boun Oum, a silver-haired, pro-U.S. princeling from Laos' lush southern hill country. Then by river boat, foot and plane, three battalions of Phoumi's troops moved on Vientiane...
...house being built, I asked to carry bricks." He earned two-fifths of a cent for every 80 bricks, enough to buy bananas and to get him eventually to Mwanza on Lake Victoria in July 1959. There he worked for six months to raise money for a boat trip to Kampala. He spent $1.05 for a physics book (which he memorized), and haunted the U.S. Information Service library. One day he stumbled on Skagit Valley in a directory of U.S. colleges. "I wrote a letter and got one back saying I had a scholarship...
Kayira set off again, walking 50 miles a day, sometimes hitchhiking, and eventually boarding a White Nile steamer. "I had no food, but by the mercy of God on the boat was an American tourist." This Samaritan fed Kayira until he reached Khartoum, where he marched proudly into the U.S. embassy for a visa...
While Havana undergoes its trial by bomb, another city, 200 miles across the Florida Straits, has become a Cuban refugee camp. By fishing boat and by yacht, by commercial airliner or hijacked plane, an estimated 500 Cubans each day are now fleeing Castro's Cuba, and most of them converge on Miami. By last week an incongruous lump of more than 30,000 worried Cubans had crowded into the winter vacationland, and more were coming...
Hockey; Harvard Catholic Club; Blood Drive--Entry solicitor; Weld Boat House--term time work...