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...DECHIRICO H&S Co. 6th MT Bn Middlesex...
...second day of the invasion, the reserves were reinforced by 4,000 regulars, many of them from Camp Le-jeune's 6th Marines. The war had been made slightly more interesting by the first appearance of 800 "aggressors" -60 of whom had succeeded in capturing two-thirds of Company M. But, like a desert phoenix, Company M had risen with the sun and was ready to move north toward Yermo. "Come on, men," urged Staff Sergeant Greg Anderson, 31, as he climbed aboard his tank. "We're out here to get practice so we can grab...
...Hindu imports spin on and on in the catalogue of current U.S. spiritual movements. So, too, do the offshoots of Buddhism, which began in India as a reform movement within Hinduism in the 6th century B.C. Gautama Buddha, the Enlightened One who founded the Buddhist family of religions, de-emphasized the Hindu gods; some schools of Buddhism-Zen, for instance-still reflect a kind of agnosticism. But the basic spiritual focus in the many forms of Buddhism is the attainment of nirvana, an ineffable state of liberation and union with ultimate reality in which suffering is eliminated, and compassion...
...objects ranging from pottery to rare silver ewers and vases. When the collection was bought through a New York dealer, J.J. Klegman, in 1966, it was widely rumored that the Met had at last acquired the so-called Lydian treasure trove. The Lydian collection came out of four 6th century tombs found near the ancient site of Sardis in Turkey. There is no doubt, according to Turkey's Foreign Minister Haluk Bayulken, that the entire Lydian collection was looted. Though the Met was invited by TIME to comment on the acquisition, it declined...
Dave Brumwell lowered the 400-yd. individual medley record he set last year at the Easterns to 4:13.301 in the afternoon heats and reached the six man finals. He was unable to equal that time in the championship finals and ended up 6th in 4:15.046. Bob Atkinson of Penn became the first double winner of the meet as he added a record breaking 4:05.076 performance to his earlier 200 IM record first...