Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back home 24 hours later for a post-Thanksgiving reunion with his family, where Mrs. Guinn fainted. Johnny later said bitterly: "I don't feel we have any business being over there, and most of the fellows in my outfit feel the same way." The most painful impact of death, of course, is on the survivors, and Survivor John Guinn-who has already died once in Viet Nam-will probably not have to go back. After a 30-day leave he will be reassigned to Fort Bragg, N.C. Meanwhile, Quinn Tichenor was taken to Louisville for reburial...
...hand. 'Get to someone who needs help,' he said. Then he collapsed in my arms with the child." A 15-month-old baby lived through the crash, as did Chris Haile, 5, and his little sister Eileen, 2, whose parents were killed; 15 adults survived the impact, but four later died...
...whose clothes were made to order by entrenched French designers. Being chic was the objective, but always in a dignified and ladylike way. Now youth is in command, and it is the college and young career girls who make the mode. What Actress Julie Christie wears has more real impact on fashion than all the clothes of the Ten Best-Dressed Women combined...
...office boy for $8 per week, which, together with the small sums his mother earned by baking pastries at home, enabled them to eke out a living. Then one night he happened in on a performance of Martha Graham's modern-dance company. "It had such a tremendous impact on me that it changed my life," he says. An instant convert, he dropped art, began studying with Lester Horton ("a kind of West Coast Martha Graham"), and danced his way through the 1940s as a member of Horton's company...
Bravura Style. TV, in short, has brought a new and gripping dimension to war. Combat in living color is often wanting in perspective but rarely in impact. Neither those who control TV news nor those who watch it can fully determine its effect, except that it hits hard at the emotions. During World War II and the Korean conflict, Americans were largely left to imagine for themselves the scenes of war as recounted in the often melodramatic reports of broadcasting journalists. In the early days of the Viet Nam war, the carryover of this bravura style was evident...