Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Combat Branch Connection...
...instruction would be limited to summer camp, the committee suggests that the Harvard unit re- tain its identification with the Artillery. There were two reasons for this decision: the Committee agreed with President Lowell, who said when the College instituted the ROTC that Harvard should be connected with a combat branch. Also there is no sign that artillery men will not be necessary for a long time to come. Since all the specialization would be included in the second six weeks period of summer camp, however, the program would be much like the "Branch General" programs in which cadets...
...downed a leisurely dinner (chicken, peas and ginger cake). Then he drove to a Washington TV studio to report to the nation, at President Eisenhower's request, on "The Fight Against Communism." Confidently, Brownell spelled out the problem of Communist infiltration and what is being done to combat...
...peppery disciplinarian with a splendid combat record (five times cited in dis patches, twice wounded, three times deco rated in the field), he is the only French man to hold one of the four top Euro pean commands in NATO. Tough and wiry, a born soldier and a patriot, he has a flair for fast horses, smart uniforms, brandy, and resounding candor. It was his candor and his refusal to curb it that proved Marshal Juin's undoing...
Along the way, Dr. Sells's co-workers at Texas' Randolph Air Force Base disposed of a couple of fallacies. Good combat flyers with markedly abnormal personalities are the exception, not the rule; in military (but not in civil) aviation, the best flyers have the most accidents-simply because they do most of the hazardous flying...