Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...full saga of Army Staff Sergeant Jimmy G. Stewart's heroism near An Khe in May last year lies buried with him. But eight Viet Cong corpses sprawled around his body bore testimony to the ferocity of the 23-year-old air cavalryman's last fight to shield five wounded comrades. As the only member of his six-man squad left unhurt by the Viet Cong's first surprise onslaught, Stewart alone battled a platoon for four hours, beating back three savage assaults. When his M-16 rifle was empty, Stewart crawled through a barrage of bullets...
...Communists were killed by the platoon; many others were lost when Howard summoned up artillery and air strikes that rained steel and napalm on the hill. When grenade fragments paralyzed both legs, Howard organized a tight defense and handed his ammunition to Marines still able to fight, before taking charge of the platoon's radio. When reinforcements tried to land by helicopter at daybreak, Howard waved them out of danger until he was satisfied that further bombing had knocked the fight out of the North Vietnamese who had outnumbered his men by 20 to one. Four of Howard...
...swift and decisive campaigns in the Sinai and on the west bank, the bitter, bloody Battle of Golan Heights seemed almost anticlimactic. It got scant attention in news reports already concentrating on Israel's overall victory. Now, as military censors release the first detailed accounts of the fight for those rugged hilltops, the battle can be recognized as a classic of its kind-a case history of the triumph of tactics and courage over superior force entrenched on all-but-unassailable terrain...
...Company X." Ling liked the way Allis-Chalmers products were "tied to the growth of the economy." The company also has a classic vulnerability to takeover attempts: its officers and directors hold less than 4% of its stock, which is a very small base from which to try to fight an attractive tender offer. Ling himself was in Milwaukee for a quiet look-see in July, and two weeks ago he moved in again...
Next day L-T-V withdrew entirely, saying it did not want to "enter a contest" for the company. Despite that statement, some who know Ling best are convinced that the next arena in his fight to take over Allis-Chalmers will be in a direct bid to shareholders...