Word: hand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hanoi long ago instructed its troops in South Viet Nam that the day might come for fighting and negotiating at the same time, with the Communist military arm reinforcing the diplomatic hand at the bargaining table. Whether or not the Communists were really ready to talk last week (see THE NATION), their soldiers were busy fighting up and down the length of South Viet Nam. Coming in the wake of the New Year's truce, the ferocity of the action was hardly unexpected; both sides always use the few day's respite of truce to position themselves...
...Navy's 13-week Underwater Demolition Team course, where the attrition rate is 40%. Once qualified as UDTs, the men are passed to the Airborne for three to five weeks of training as parachutists. All Seals must be proficient in at least one foreign language, in hand-to-hand combat and self-defense techniques. They are the Navy's "unconventionals," and they sometimes call themselves "the animals." For their skills and courage, Seal officers earn an extra $220 a month and Seal enlisted men an extra $110 monthly...
...Borbón is good enough to have earned a brown belt, first class, and proud enough of it to invite Madrid photographers to take a look. The occasion was Juan Carlos' 30th birthday, and he celebrated by cleaving a board with the edge of his hand. There was something else to celebrate too. The Prince is now, as far as age is concerned, eligible to become King, assuming that the monarchy is restored, after Generalissimo Francisco Franco steps down. The prince's father, Don Juan, 54, is, of course, first in line, and the prince loyally flew...
...country, one of the scenic delights used to be the handsomely weather-beaten, quaintly dilapidated barns that lined rural roads. The pleasure is fast vanishing. From New England to the Midwest, the old barns are being dismantled by barn buyers who covet their richly textured boards and hand-hewn beams, sell them to satisfy America's increasingly nostalgic appetite for rustic building materials. The barn boards are being used in homes mostly as warm wall paneling for family rooms, dens and country kitchens, or for cabinets to contain the latest stereo-tape decks and color TVs, and even...
...only a few hundred people with very little power. And we must not confuse the change inside each of us, important though that may be, with the change that we have yet to bring about in this country and the world. Neither the Revelation nor the Revolution is at hand, and to base our hopes and plans on them would be a tragic blunder...