Word: 716th
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...716th pick overall, Hendricks was chosen with his future as a first or third baseman in mind, taken for his offensive talent rather than the at-times tireless pitching arm which won him Ivy League Pitcher of the Year. Impressively, the Spring, Texas native ranked sixth in the country in hitting, winning the Ivy League batting crown with a .427 mark...
Without fanfare or even much of a press release, a Pentagon milestone was passed last week. Robert Strange McNamara, 49, completed his 1,716th day as Secretary of Defense, thus exceeding the tenure of the late Charles E. Wilson (1953-7), who had previously held the job longer than any other secretary since the Cabinet post was created...
...between the Orne and the Vire that the man-toman battle was fought in most savage fury. On Sword, Juno and Gold beaches, British and Canadian troops hurled in an astonishing force of "specialized armor" -mine-clearing tanks, pillbox-blasting tanks, ditch-filling tanks, flamethrowing tanks-but the German 716th Infantry Division, in fortified seaside hotels and summer villas, fought back viciously, inflicting 4,000 casualties...
...their heyday, the G.I. racketeers had waded in cigarets and candy, traded fistfuls of U.S. money at poker games. The 716th had boasted openly of its nickname: "The Millionaire Battalion...
...when the men of the 716th threw themselves on the mercy of a cold court last week, all their brag was gone. The defense made its points as well as it could: 1) the accused had been left largely to shift for themselves soon after Dday, and so had become easy prey for the black-marketeers; 2) officers knew of the situation and tolerated it; 3) so many units were entangled that feelings of moral guilt reached the vanishing point...