Word: months
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officially approved, fast-firing M-14, to replace the World War I .30-cal. machine gun with the new M60, or to come up with a tank to match the Russian T-54 now in the field. "For $5 billion worth of troop equipment," cracked one division commander last month, "I'd trade Huntsville away in a minute...
Sample: about dawn one day last month 47 newly commissioned West Point second lieutenants streamed into the Ranger school dugout on a mountain near Dahlonega in the rugged forest of North Georgia. For 72 hours they had dodged and fought blank-firing Aggressor troops (Russian-like insignia and uniforms) across 50 miles of tangled underbrush. By map and compass they traveled at night, kept on alert all day (about two hours' sleep each), set off live explosive near TVA's Blue Ridge Dam. For food they had one C-ration can, a share in a live chicken...
...expedition), the group has since had tough going. But vivid reporting of the Fifty-Niners' trials has deterred none of a second contingent from Michigan: some 550 men, women and children have registered at $25 a head, will set out in a 100-car train later this month...
...agreement with the Soviet Union, and has been careful to express no official sympathy for the Tibetan rebels. But the most surprising change is a sudden shift in the long-embittered relations between India and Pakistan. Even though an Indian jet bomber was shot down last month when it violated Pakistani air space, both nations are doing fresh thinking about the future. Pakistan's President Ayub Khan publicly urged that they should "learn to live like good neighbors" without "frightening or fearing each other." In the light of Tibetan events, he said, Pakistan and India must join together...
...Home. While in Paris, Houphouet ran his Ivory Coast preserve by longdistance phone, but his followers kept complaining: "When you are not here, we don't do anything." Last month, after his party dutifully won every one of the 100 seats in the Ivory Coast Assembly, Houphouet decided that his influence in Africa would be far greater if he were to quit Paris and become Premier of his country. Last week, as the crowds of Abidjan roared, "Vive! Vive! Vive!", the Assembly installed him in office. The new Premier announced that he would never allow an opposition party that...