Word: crashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Costly Battle. Next day 20 helicopters with U.S. pilots were kept busy jungle-hopping troops of the South Vietnamese 7th Division to build up an assault on the Viet Cong stronghold near Due Hoa. One helicopter crash-landed on a muddy pineapple field and was battered by Communist mortar and rifle fire, killing two Vietnamese soldiers and injuring three Americans, who set the helicopter afire to keep it out of Viet Cong hands. Said one hard-worked U.S. pilot: "It sounded like World War II out there." Even Saigon was not safe: on Christmas Day, a 26-year...
...where and how Johnny can crash into college, David Boroff's Campus U.S.A. (Harper; $4.50) is a highly readable romp through higher education, from Harvard to Pomona, that tells almost everything college catalogues do not. Nor should aspiring freshmen neglect Katherine Kinkead's slim, fat-titled How an Ivy League College Decides on Admissions (Norton; $2.95), an illuminating account of Yale's headaches...
...white soldiers (see box, p. 20) who were his major support. Finally last August, U.N. troops began an ill-fated action to force Tshombe ,to end his secession-an action that ended in a humiliating cease-fire maintaining the status quo and in Dag Hammarskjold's fatal air crash...
...perhaps the strangest evidence of all was that Chief Flight Engineer John Mayfield had blithely repaired a fuel pump motor on the Constellation the day before the crash by cutting down a brush taken from a 1954 Mercury automobile generator. As it turned out, the engine with the ersatz part kept going during the fatal flight. But engineers from established airlines blinked in dismay at Imperial's incredibly slipshod methods of maintenance. Said one: "They must have been a little desperate...
...Crash Mission. Even if a school has money, it usually hungers for qualified students. At Texas Southern University, for example, 90% of the freshmen have to take remedial math or English or both. Half the freshman class of 1,000 drops out, and only about one-fourth lasts to graduation. About half the graduates of Negro colleges become schoolteachers. So goes the vicious circle: poor teachers turning out poor students, who then become poor teachers turning out poor students...