Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commanders see the main Communist threat now aimed at III Corps, the region comprising the ten important provinces around Saigon. Earlier this month, the highly mobile First Air Cavalry Division with its complement of more than 400 helicopters was shifted from northernmost I Corps into the Cambodian border fringe north and northwest of the capital, to strengthen allied defensive screens there. The U.S. command estimates that the jungles along the sievelike frontier harbor as many as four Communist divisions, some sheltered in newly built base areas. Throughout III Corps, the Communist order of battle has risen from 60 main...
...dress from Filene's is on the stand, tears making muddy tracks on her smooth brown face. Everything about her is smooth, and I want to help her--that is it--there is no one in this court to help anyone else. We are all alone against the unreasoning command of the eyes. Someone else is crying, a whole family--the fattest woman I have ever seen, her daughters dressed in vinyl shoes, a three dollar skirt, and hair that was set the night before (she set it the night before to look neat when she went to court...
...Godard says that the director's decision to move the camera is a political act; for these greater film-makers, Lang and Ulmer, it is perhaps applicable that moving shots represent decisions of morality in terms of the dynamic relationship between foreground and background. In addition to Ulmer's command of composition, lighting, and occasionally dazzling montage, is his ability to translate these subtle aspects of morality into cinematic spectacle...
Yellow Yankee. Last week, Okinawans voted in the first popular election of a chief executive permitted by the U.S. command since World...
...stops-the feeling Victorian families must have had at Christmastime. The charade ends with Daddy happy for the moment, and a new trophy on the shelf: an unprecedented third world championship mounted on a field of broken collarbones. This psychic manipulation complements the military planning of the Packer High Command. Kramer starts on Tuesday-by Thursday it is too late-working up "an anger, then a hatred," to the point where on one occasion he considers kicking a fallen opponent in the spine. What kind of victory, what kind of money, justifies this corrupt make-believe is a problem...