Word: 1st
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only regret is that I cannot put Mr. Kennedy, with all his armchair strategy, in the middle of the A Shau Valley and watch him stew as the enemy artillery rounds are landing around his head. CHARLES W. NEWHALL III 1st Lieutenant, U.S.A. A.P.O. San Francisco...
With less than a year to go before the schedule opening of Mather House, L. Gard Wiggins started off the long season of speculation about whether the new House really would open on time. Wiggins said on the 1st that despite some summer strikes, the House would be ready to take in its nearly 400 residents by September...
...borne the brunt of the casualties] who were going to refuse to go up again," one soldier said. "There'd been low morale, but never before so low-because we felt it was all so senseless." Two other battalions from the 101st and a battalion from the Vietnamese 1st Division were brought up as reinforcements. On May 18, two battalions-all of their men loaded down with 40 magazines of rifle ammunition-tried again, and were thrown back just short of the crest in a blinding rainstorm and a shower of Communist grenades. One company commander stilled growing discontent...
ARIES-The Ram, Mar. 21-Apr. 19 (Governs the head) Mars, Pluto- rulers of the 1st house Positive: Enterprising, incisive, spontaneous Negative: Impatient, impetuous Career: Pioneer, architect, soldier
...collection included an almost unparalleled variety of stone religious statuettes, ranging from a voluptuous pair of seminude 1st century dryads to a masterly 5th century lion's head from Mathura. There were ferocious bronze twelve-armed Kashmirian deities, smiling eastern Indian Krishnas and serene Nepalese Buddhas, to say nothing of inlaid daggers and textiles woven with iridescent beetle wings. Yet to many scholars, the most delightful items were the exquisite 16th-to-19th century manuscript paintings from the Rajput and Mogul civilizations of western and central India. These, in more than 70 sprightly miniatures, detailed stories of the gods...