Word: occasionals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Death in the Hay. With a battalion of undertrained rookies, Johnson-still a lieutenant colonel after eight years-was assigned to the Pusan perimeter, where he moved into position as a reserve unit. The next day the Communists overran the front lines. Johnson's battalion fought like veterans-and...
After Diem. Even the South Vietnamese populace is impressed-no mean feat, considering the fact that for years the police had been little more than pawns in Saigon's political chess games. President Diem turned them into a family guard and on occasion played them off against the army...
The varsity game at 8:30 p.m. should be quite a letdown, but it might be a happy occasion for Harvard fans. Holy Cross was hit hard by graduation losses, and with some good shooting the Crimson might even score a runaway victory.
Cutting the Lines. Though primarily for use in the South, there is nothing to prevent the spreading southern-based armada from joining on occasion its sister fleet of U.S. planes based on carriers and in Thailand in the daily, relentless pounding of North Viet Nam. Indeed, as Hanoi increasingly steps...
The present system, Hershey admits, may lack uniformity; it may be on occasion inconsistent, arbitrary and even inequitable. But further centralization and stronger national directives, he claims, would only compound the problems by making the entire process less democratic.