Word: overwhelmingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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∙THE MEN. Viet Cong's "hardcore" forces now number about 35,000, with 60,000-80,000 local, part-time guerrillas backing them up. Moreover, since 1959 at least 20,000 and perhaps as many as 37,000 infiltrators have entered South Viet Nam from the North. Thus...
Sir: The eagle in the air and the whale in the sea cannot conquer the elephant in the jungle. Our overwhelming air and naval supremacy, even our bomb, cannot prevail over China's 700 million people. China warns it will not sit idly by if we attack, and made...
Land v. Sky & Sea. In sum, while the U.S. still fears a land-based entanglement with China's vast army, American military superiority is overwhelming in any situation where air and seapower can be brought to bear. Mao Tse-tung seems determined to avoid any such situation. Protesting a...
Harvard and Radcliffe students should be grateful that they have at last won a trial period of free interhouse dining between the colleges. The Administration--Masters, Deans, and financial officers--has shown a sincere desire to experiment with a program long sought by an overwhelming majority of students.
The French, it says, had overwhelming numbers and fire power, but lost in Indo-China because they lacked the support of the population. "Do we face the same prospect?"