Word: 21st
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...ARVN regulars constitute South Viet Nam's military spine, and on them the U.S. has expended its greatest training efforts. Those efforts, too, need improvement. Of the ten regular divisions, only three are considered "good" by U.S. commanders: the 1st in northernmost I Corps, and the 7th and 21st in the Delta. One division, the Delta's 25th, is rated virtually a disaster; the other six divisions range from "spotty" to "promising...
...YEAR 2000, by Herman Kahn and Anthony J. Wiener. Members of New York's Hudson Institute, one of the nation's leading think tanks, offer educated speculations on the quality of life at the beginning of the 21st century...
...last week's Heptagonals, Hardin won his second straight after a month of injuries, breaking 25 minutes over Van Cortlandt's rigorous five-mile layout. The wiry captain Jim Baker, front runner for the first four miles, finished eighth, Heyburn 18th, McLoone 21st and Howe 22nd as Harvard topped Navy by ten points and Yale...
Following the slight junior to the finish for Harvard were Baker in eighth place, John Heyburn, 18th, Tim McLoone and Dick Howe, 21st and 22nd, Bob Stempson 27th and Frank Sulloway 42nd. In the final tabulation. Coach Bill McCurdy's all-winning squad had 70 points to Navy's 80 and Yale...
...those that have been proved wrong. But this volume and its authors provide a better reason for estimating the look of tomorrow. The future has enormous shock value for a world that has not sought to take its measure in advance. If the world at the beginning of the 21st century were to be as "intellectually unprepared" for change as it was in 1929, 1941 and 1947, write the authors, it would be "subjected to some very unpleasant surprises." Man cannot safeguard himself against the surprises of the future, but he can try to prepare for them by reducing what...