Word: footings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 3-4 p.m.). In "Four Days to Omaha," a young man sets out to learn about his dead soldier-father by retracing his foot steps from London to an Omaha Beach cemetery in Normandy...
...215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The first of a two-part series, "From Cradle to Classroom," takes a look at the education process that starts long before a child steps foot in a classroom...
...first time since the U.S. committed itself to combat in Viet Nam, the Communist foot soldier was thus able to fight during the week with little fear of shells and bombs, rifleman .o rifleman. Giap knew that he would take huge losses, but he hoped that the cost in allied lives would also be great; he has long since proved that he considers one American life worth five of his own in the campaign to weary the U.S. of the war. That, too, characterized his war against the French, where at Dienbienphu he even budgeted 100% casualties?and took...
...genre that must be underplayed, Williams hokes up the script into near parody. He huffs and puffs doom like an overamplified Greek chorus, and lays on the suspense with all the foot-clumping subtlety of a horror movie...
...into the city and, toward the north, broke through to the Volga. But Stalin had issued a grim order: "Not one step backward." With their backs to the river's edge, the Russians dug in determinedly. They fought the invaders in the streets, factories and cellars for each foot of land, bombarded them from across the river with mortars. A few tied live grenades around themselves and dove under the clanking panzers. Astonishingly, the Russians held off the Germans for three months-long enough for Stalin to reinforce his armies north and south of the city...