Word: cavs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Roving gangs of black 1st Air Cav troopers at Bien Hoa and of 9th Division soldiers at Dong Tam have waylaid unsuspecting whites...
...company commander leading his 1st Air Cav Division troops into the field was startled to find his black soldiers wearing black berets and shirts instead of the regulation helmets and fatigues...
Boring in on the Fishhook from two points, the helicopter-borne Air Cav and South Vietnamese troopers achieved total tactical surprise. "Sure, the Communists had some knowledge that we were planning a big move," said one U.S. military source. "But they never expected an air assault-never anticipated the choppers coming in on them." The pincer attack was so swift that the enemy never did get its .51-cal. antiaircraft batteries in firing position. In the first hours of the assault, one ARVN (Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) airborne unit set down right on top of a North...
...When Cav and Pag came out in the 1890s, there was a certain honesty in creating grand opera about common peopie. To go on captivating audiences today, such operas do not need modernizing. They need the courage of their own melodramatic convictions, overwhelming the audience with old-fashioned breast beating, hair pulling and singing that soars and thrills...
...Cav, however, Bernstein fell in love with Composer Pietro Mascagni's original score, which calls for much slower tempos than the opera customarily is given. (His performance ran a full ten minutes longer than the normal 70 minutes.) Tension and excitement drained away as Tenor Franco Corelli and Soprano Grace Bumbry (Santuzza) dutifully sacrificed dramatic pacing to accuracy, concentrating on breathing deeply to manage the long phrases...