Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...involved in more than 100,000 separate actions against the Viet Cong. They have increased their kill ratio over the Viet Cong to as high as 8 to 1 and have killed or captured a total of 15,000 Communists-a high for any American unit. In what they call their "Kit Carson Program," the Marines often use Viet Cong defectors as scouts, paying them $41 a month. "They point out the guy we'd been walking right past for so long," says Colonel Donald Mallory, 50, commander of the 5,000-man 1st Marine Regiment. The scouts frequently...
...carries that philosophy to perfection is Lieut. Colonel William Corson, 41, a former Naval Academy professor, economist and engineer who controls 50 sq. mi. of jungle west of Danang. After months of patrolling and night ambushes, Corson's 1,500-man battalion set up what he likes to call "my laboratory for capitalism." The first step was to engage the interest of the villagers, which Corson achieved by the un-Clausewitzean technique of teaching his men the local game: co tuong, a variant of chess that uses "elephants, cannon and 14th century infantry tactics." Corson himself took...
...They Please. To practice its "anti-psychiatry," the Laing group has set up centers in London that it refuses to call hospitals, but regards as simply households where people live and interact. "There are no psychiatrists and no patients," says Dr. Laing. "It just happens that some of these people would be in mental hospitals if they weren't in the center, and others would be called psychiatrists outside. Visitors can't tell which is which. No one is being 'treated' in any accepted sense." In the centers, schizophrenics get an absolute minimum of tranquilizing drugs...
...Call to Disarm. Behind the drop in interest rates both in the U.S. and Britain lay an event of seemingly superficial but potentially vast consequence. Last year interest escalation by major Western powers took on the character of an international rate war, much to the damage of prosperity in Britain and West Germany. Hoping for what he called "a measure of disarmament in interest rates," British Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan met for a Saturday-Sunday session at Chequers, the Buckinghamshire country residence of British Prime Ministers, with U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler and the finance chiefs of Germany...
...aggressive administrator-and this is precisely the kind of man that Allied wants. After an unspectacular period as a wholesaler of chemical products, the company has lately moved into more sophisticated-and more profitable-consumer items. It has also reorganized itself into separate industrial, agricultural and plastics divisions, which call for Connor's kind of administrative talent. In addition, Allied intends to step up its marketing overseas, which is an area that the former Commerce Secretary knows well...