Word: combating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...front, Psychiatrist Robert J. Lavin sent in an encouraging report on the 7th Division. Of 250 men who had shambled into his tent during the month, said Captain Lavin, he had been able to send no fewer than 247 back to duty. The great majority went back to combat within four or five days, and most of the others got service (e.g., as stretcher bearers) in the forward area. Only three cases did Lavin send to a rear-area hospital in Seoul, and one of them soon returned to duty...
...this free access theme: "Harvard was synonymous with free minds openly browsing through all the orthodoxies and heresies of history, through good book, bad books, and mediocre books. Harvard deserved more than Virginia, the great inscription of Thomas Jefferson, 'Here we fear no heresy where truth is free to combat error.'" But he noted also contrary forces, "a clever subtile devil, appearing in devious ways." Sometimes his attack has been frontal, as "when a century age there was a restriction on anti-slavery discussion. . .or when he appeared in the guise of gentility to suggest that Dunster House students would...
...Last MIG Lieut. James F. ("Dad") Low, 27, left Korea for the U.S. last week, through with combat but not with flying. The Air Force has belatedly become the focus of his life: with nine MIG kills to his credit, he is one of the three top U.S. jet aces.-At 25, Jim Low thousht of himself as a failure and a misfit. He had tried being a gambler, but could get nowhere with cards, dice or horses. Raised in Sausalito, a California town across the bay entrance from San Francisco, he had served three wartime years in the Navy...
...moved south to the borders of Laos. Giap's most serious effort was a two-division attack (20,000 men) on the flooded area around Phat Diem, only 62 miles south of Hanoi. The French replied by moving in .three mobile groups (each comparable to a U.S. regimental combat team), supported by French navy units. In a wide encircling movement, the French pinned down a section of the Communist forces in a bamboo-screened village...
Under Conant's proposal, the army would draft all men at 18, or when they complete high school, with deferments for no one. Men normally assigned to 4-F category would be taken into the military for the two year period to do clerical or other non-combat work...