Word: equiped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Enigma. At 44, tough, hawk-faced little General Pak is an enigma, little known either to South Koreans or to the U.S. officers who, through the U.N. Korea Command, train, equip and largely control the tough, 600,000-man ROK army. A career officer who was trained in Japanese military schools, Pak was court-martialed for Communist activities as a South Korean officer in 1948, escaped with his life to become an anti-Communist-and the ROK army's chief of operations. He speaks little English, never made the study tour of U.S. military camps that has been...
South Viet Nam's Red terrorists generally concentrate their murderous raids on village chiefs, Vietnamese troops and police patrols, usually steering clear of the hundreds of Americans in the country who advise and equip the government's army. But last week, emboldened by recent guerrilla successes, they dared to attack the U.S. ambassador himself right in the capital of Saigon. Only nine weeks at his new post, Ambassador Frederick E. Nolting Jr. was riding to his official residence for lunch when two men hurled a homemade hand grenade onto the roof of his car, fled on a motorcycle...
...ever consider that what you have learned and understood here at Radcliffe, which has so great and real a pride in the history of education, can ever fully equip you for what the immediate period ahead will present to you," Bohlen warned. Nevertheless, he added, a Radcliffe education will at least provide the central elements of basic education and understanding "which you will draw on in making choices...
...competitive sport. Despite keen competition from the Brunswick Corp., AMF has remained the world's largest maker of automatic Pin setters. With 68,000 machines already on lease in the U.S. (for an average annual gross of $68 million), AMF last week got $3,000,000 contract to equip a new chain of bowling centers in the East...
...sick. In the past 15 years, U.S. hospital admissions have shot up 51% while population has increased only 30%-not because more people are getting sick but because more people can afford, or are guaranteed, treatment. In the next ten years some $17 billion will be spent to build, equip and modernize hospitals. Soaring with this increase is American Hospital Supply Corp., whose aggressive acquisitions and imaginative selling have made it by far the biggest of the 600 companies that supply and equip hospitals. Already A.H.S. has 10% of the market. In the past six years its gross income...