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...Flew to Lexington, Ky., received his 26th honorary degree, and told 12,000 University of Kentucky students: "If you wish a sheltered and uneventful life, you are living in the wrong generation. No one can promise you calm, or ease, or undisturbed comfort. But we can promise you this. We can promise enormous challenge and arduous struggle, hard labor and great danger. And with them we can promise you triumph over all the enemies...
...majority cloture are not at all clear." rules, requiring two-thirds of voting to shut off debate, have action. Cooper insisted. But he that cloture by three-fifths of those and voting, as urged in S. Res. 6 Senators Clinton P. Anderson (D-N. and Thruston B. Morton (R-Ky.), be preferable to cloture by a of "all Senators duly chosen and ," as Senator Paul H. Douglas and the many co-sponsors of S. suggest...
Thao's forces failed to catch Khanh, who had departed 30 minutes earlier in his Alouette helicopter for Cap St. Jacques. They also missed Air Force Commander Nguyen Cao Ky, as well as Ky's wife, who roared off seconds ahead of them in a sports car with her mother. Khanh ordered three battalions of loyal troops to move on the capital, while Ky dispatched a loudspeaker plane, which droned overhead, pleading, "Brother must not fight against brother." Next morning the rebels fled before a volley of three rifle shots that whizzed harmlessly overhead; not a drop...
Whereupon those who saved Khanh -including Airman Ky-turned on him themselves. The Armed Forces Council reportedly voted a no-confidence motion against Khanh. General Nguyen Chanh Thi, commander of the northernmost I Corps, was proclaimed chief of the capital's "liberation forces." For the moment, the winners seemed to be Thi, Ky and IV Corps Commander General Nguyen Van Thieu...
While Westmoreland was commanding the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky., in 1958, he led a routine paratroop drop that turned to tragedy when the winds shifted. Five men were dragged to their death, one when the wind caught his grounded chute and swept him over a cliff. Westmoreland pitched in to help the wounded, from that day on refused to give the go-ahead for a drop until he had jumped first and had time to gauge the wind...