Word: cores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most disagreeable of rear-area jobs. Boldly and shrewdly, Brigadier General Haydon L. Boatner had chosen Compound 76, scene of the Dodd-Colson coup, as the first to be tackled in bringing order to the prison. After the bloody battle in which Compound 76's 6,000 hard-core Communists were subdued (TIME, June 16), the other tough enclosures on Koje toppled like ninepins, with no further fighting between guards and prisoners. By week's end, some 30,000 prisoners had been moved into smaller enclosures, where they were searched and fingerprinted. During the cleanup nearly 800 anti...
...body of "all-around boys," a horde of C-minus "good citizens," as Dean Bender phrases it. Harvard's chief consideration is academic superiority and its reputation will automatically attract true scholars. Objective examinations like the College Board scores will further eliminate any academic incompetents. But beyond this solid core of high intelligence, the College seeks a "balance," an undergraduate body with the widest possible range of skills, tastes, and backgrounds. Geographical location is an important factor, and the Committee on Admissions, while weighing grades highest, will then start the selection process in the west and work east. The danger...
Brigadier General Haydon Lemaire ("Bull") Boatner was ready for his big test on Koje Island. He intended to break up the big compounds, and he decided to start with the 6,000 hard-core North Koreans in Compound 76-the gang that engineered the abduction of Brigadier General (now Colonel) Francis T. Dodd. To impress 76's inmates, he staged a rehearsal with tanks and flamethrowers in an empty compound next to theirs. The prisoners answered by digging chest-deep trenches and continuing to turn out steel-tipped spears and other crude weapons on their hidden forge...
...first time since the Dodd kidnaping, Boatner sent troops into one of the hard-core compounds. The North Korean officers of Compound 66 had built two corrugated tin huts which they seemed to be using as a command post and medical dispensary. After a tear-gas barrage had driven prisoners back from the wire, unarmed British troops in jaunty green berets went in, under the protection of U.S. guards with bayonets at the ready, and smashed the huts with axes, hatchets, sledges, crowbars. Nobody got hurt, but next day a prisoner work detail from Compound 96, carrying sewage buckets...
...Alfred Jacobsen, one of the industry's great pioneers in scientific oil exploration (TIME, March 24), decided to chance it in the Williston Basin, after other oilmen had been drilling there sporadically and futilely for about 30 years. Jacobsen drilled to 11,000 ft. before discovering that "core samples," removed at 8,000 ft., indicated the presence of oil. By a new technique (using hydrochloric acid to flush oil out of close-pored limestone), Jacobsen found the oil that others had missed, and the great Williston rush...