Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours over national TV, John Hughes, special assistant to the chief of the Defense Department's intelligence service, used a photographic memory and a wandlike pointer to explain blowups of more than 65 aerial pictures daringly taken over Cuba since last August. As flashed onto a 20-ft.-wide screen the photographs, some of them in color, told an intensely dramatic story...
...fire. "When those poor Vietnamese came out of the choppers, it was like shooting ducks for the Viet Cong," said one U.S. officer. The stunned survivors burrowed into the slimy mud of the paddies and stayed there, refusing to continue the assault. Desperately, Captain Kenneth Good, 32, a West Pointer from Ewa Beach, Hawaii, sought to rally the Vietnamese for a counterattack, but he was stitched through the neck and chest by a burst from a Viet Cong automatic rifle. The government troops stayed...
...most dramatic part of the plan was a request to the U.S. to send additional military equipment to the U.N. Congo force. The U.S. responded last week by naming Lieut. General Louis W. Truman, 54, a bantam, 150-lb. West Pointer (and second cousin of Harry S Truman) as head of an eight-man mission to weigh the U.N.'s arms needs. Seven of the eight are members of a top-drawer planning group called JTF4 (for Joint Task Force 4), set up in 1961 to chart long-range military contingency plans for sub-Saharan Africa. As General Truman...
With ten seconds left in the first half, Holy Cross finally pulled in front by a point; when captain Gene Augustine threw the ball in bounds after the score, it was stolen by the Crusaders' Tom Palace who made an easy two-pointer and put Holy Cross ahead to stay...
Died. Lieut. General Frank William Milburn, 70, a husky West Pointer who won three Silver Stars for front-line bravery as XXI Corps commander in Europe and I Corps commander in Korea, retired in 1952 to become athletic director of Montana State University, in 1955 sat on the ten-man committee that wrote the new soldiers' code of conduct designed to guide captured U.S. soldiers; of emphysema; in Missoula, Mont...