Word: custers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other Communist troops, along with some 2,000 weapons. Chinese-manufactured machine guns line the walk leading to Air Cav Major General John Norton's headquarters located near An Khe, a proud display of hard-won enemy weaponry. Air Cav troopers, using the strategy of General Custer's day, have struck swiftly and destructively at the enemy's food supplies: more than 1,000,000 Ibs. of rice have been systematically destroyed in the Air Cav's first year of action. In the process, the Air Cav, or "the First Team" as it likes to call...
MARRIAGE GO ROUND, Black Hills Playhouse, Custer State Park...
That Cussed Custer...
...TIME'S review of books about Custer [July 22] recalls the description written by Psychiatrist Karl Menninger when he was asked in 1947 to assess Custer's personality for a medical journal...
Author Sandoz did a first-rate job in researching and recounting Custer's last battle. One fanciful notion about Custer's motivations, however, seems to be just too speculative to be taken seriously. Miss Sandoz reasoned that the 36-year-old soldier was burning to be President of the U.S. He began his march toward the Little Bighorn on June 22, five days before the Democratic National Convention was to meet in St. Louis. Custer, according to the author, hoped to achieve a spectacular victory over the Sioux, after which the convention would be stampeded into rewarding...