Word: 82nd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could be left alone. Paris agreed-and left him alone more than ever. When the doctors finally told Brancusi that he would die unless he went to a hospital, he replied, "I shall wait for God here, in my studio, death claimed him in 1957 early in his 82nd year...
NIGHT DROP, by S.L.A. Marshall (415 pp.; Atlantic-Little, Brown; $6.50). "Slam" Marshall, famed war correspondent for the Detroit News and a retired brigadier general (Army Reserve), here undertakes to tell what happeaed when the paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions dropped behind enemy lines in the dead of night on Dday. Most of them got lost. They fought or drowned in swamps that air reconnaissance had failed to reveal. They stumbled through Normandy's hedgerows in uncoordinated fashion, fighting from ambush and being ambushed. Some cowered on bridges and in apple orchards. Others became heroes...
...Loving You As I Do." When World War II came. Thurmond put down his gavel. As a lieutenant colonel in the Army's crack 82nd Airborne Division, Thurmond went into Normandy by glider on Dday, was injured when his glider crashed, stayed in action until his men had secured their objective; his gallantry won him a Bronze Star. Today. Thurmond is a major general in the Army Reserve...
...82nd anniversary of Stalin's birth cut no ice in Moscow, where Pravda-which in the late dictator's prime regularly praised his name as many as 300 times per issue-wrote him off with a single mention: a reference to "the serious obstacles that the Stalin cult of personality placed in the path of the development of Marxist-Leninist theory...
Before leaving Fort Bragg, President Kennedy visited 300 men of the 82nd who had not participated in the performance; they had been on combat alert. One paratrooper startled the President by shouting in his face: "Airborne, all the way!" Replied the President of the U.S., with every reason to mean what he said: "That's the spirit...