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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1969
Page
37
Montagnard boys aged 12 and 14 light cigarettes after a pre dawn patrol near their Song Be outpost in South Vietnam. The provincial capital faces three Viet Cong battalions as spring offensive begins. Fathers also serve at the same outpost amid daily mortar fire.
The second Boeing 747 jumbojet rolls off the Everett Washington line, dwarfing the 707 and poised to become the world's largest commercial jet. It will carry up to 490 passengers and enter airline service after testing later this year.
Golda Meir, 70, received flowers from an elderly Milwaukee friend as she arrived for a Labor party gathering in Tel Aviv. The Labor central committee voted to endorse Meir as successor to Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, who died February 26 from a heart attack.
In a reflection on voice and discipline, the author recounts a life shaped by loud sentiment and the irony of a quiet neighbor who warned boys softly yet effectively. The piece notes the speaker’s noisy upbringing and a desire to heed Nixon’s call for measured speech, despite chronic shouting.
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