Word: brigham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...break ensued, during which the Viet Cong sipped beer on their side of the clearing and the Americans drank cold tea near the helicopters that had brought them. Finally, the Communist representatives produced the American prisoners-Pfc. Donald G. Smith, SP4 Thomas N. Jones, and SP4 James W. Brigham, all 21. After a short Viet Cong propaganda speech (during which Smith mumbled, "By God, let's get all this over with and get out of here"), the Americans issued the Communists a receipt for the prisoners and whisked them off by helicopter. The three had been in enemy hands...
...Army began last year to grant contracts for new Senior ROTC units to 15 selected colleges and universities each year. The first group of institutions included such schools as Brigham Young University, St. John's University of New York and other imminently respectable institutions. There are reported to be about 150 institutions of higher learning still on the Army's waiting list, each eager and willing to accept the contract terms which have prevailed for 50 years. Combined with low officer production and other reasons, this access to other college campuses might cause the Army to withdraw from some...
...proposals are really a product of the thinking of the board," Gordon L. Brigham, director of the program, said yesterday, explaining that City staff workers and outside consultants had helped to "put the board's ideas into the form of a formal program...
...Brigham said that the exact cost of the proposed projects was not yet certain, although HUD has already earmarked $870,000 to pay for any programs in the area not covered by other Federal funding. Since the Model Cities program tries to funnel Federal money from diverse agencies into one area, the ultimate cost of the first year program--if Washington gives Cambridge all the money it wants--will probably be several times the $870,000 figure, Brigham said...
...open question of what the attitude of the new administration will be . . . the attitude of the present administration has been very favorable toward the kind of program we're trying to run here in Cambridge," Brigham said. He said that Cambridge was "trying to get some review of our program before all the present administrators have left Washington," to create an HUD commitment to finance the Cambridge program...