Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state-run Guard. Instead, it recommended outright elimination of 15 understrength Guard divisions, four Reserve brigades and many other smaller units. Total authorized personnel would shrink by only 38,500-to 640,000-because surviving combat units would be reinforced to permit their deployment within eight weeks of call-up and some new outfits would be formed. All combat components would be in the Guard, which would have eight divisions and 18 brigades on quick-response status. The active Reserve would consist entirely of training and support units...
...Northeast, in particular, suffered from the vernal cold snap that oldtimers call "dogwood winter." New York City shivered through its coldest spring in 50 years, and May seemed to disappear altogether, with temperatures averaging 7.2° below normal. Thousands of northbound scarlet tanagers and other birds-whose migratory urge is regulated by the lengthening of the days rather than the rising of the mercury-starved to death for lack of caterpillars, which hatched three weeks late...
...Road. With the gold cross of the Supreme Order of Christ hanging around his neck, De Gaulle took the occasion of his visit to Rome to call on Pope Paul VI. The Pope pleased De Gaulle by declaring that "history will tell about his unequaled services to his country." De Gaulle praised the Pope for his efforts for world peace, warned that "peace has never been more blindly menaced." When the time came for a benediction, it was touch and go whether the Pope or De Gaulle would grant the blessing...
...avoided the brass. She headed instead for the hospitals and spent her ten days in Viet Nam talking to the wounded. "I saw 2,100 boys and talked to every one of them," she says. "Since I've been back, I've made 305 long-distance calls to wives, parents and sweethearts of guys who gave me a telephone number and asked me to call someone back home. The trip was worth every minute of the 20,000 miles and those 18-hour days...
Through Interpol, police the world over can trace a Bombay jewel thief with a dozen aliases and passports, study the latest research on police use of helicopters, learn how Lebanon is persuading farmers to grow sunflowers instead of hashish-or call on the FBI's monumental files of 184 million fingerprints. By holding annual conventions on a different continent each year, Interpol unites the world's fuzz-Tokyo detectives, Canadian mounties, U.S. narcotics agents-for mutual education in everything from electronics to odonto-grams (tooth identification). In addition, Interpol organizes regular seminars on scientific crime detection, sends forgery...