Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...infantrymen and two or three women who handle the cooking-past South Vietnamese defense perimeters and the cordons formed by the U.S. 9th and 25th Divisions. Once inside the city, the team deploys in three sections-one to fight, a second to dig a maze of underground tunnels for quick movement and escape, a third to rest. On a rotation basis, the system allows round-the-clock fighting. If the squad discovers a sizable hole in the defenses, Xu can easily infiltrate a company or even a battalion to join the fray. His troops have played that game...
...would go for emergency renovation, so that the hospital can retain at least its probationary status. Help may come from Washington, where Massachusetts' Senator Edward M. Kennedy has been plugging for federal loans to crisis-ridden municipal hospitals. But the question remains whether the financial therapy will be quick and massive enough to save Boston City...
Since it covers all of the biggest corporations in the U.S., the FORTUNE list in total terms is a quick check on the state of business. Last year, by FORTUNE'S total's, the check showed mixed returns. Sales of the 500 companies were higher than ever, up 7.9%, to $359 billion. Assets grew 12.3%, to $317 billion. But earnings, with a cost-profit squeeze still on, fell 3%, to $21.4 billion...
...students demanded university admission for more students from working-class backgrounds. Tito, in order to head off any such potent alliance of workers and students as that in France last month, ordered plastic-helmeted militiamen to patrol outside the university and banned all public demonstrations. He was also quick to throw a bone in the workers' direction, ordering the minimum wage of $12 a month doubled immediately. Within hours, dozens of published messages poured into student headquarters from factory Communist committees, most agreeing vaguely to aims of reform but all roundly condemning activist methods. "We invite you to unmask...
Like Carter Lord, Jeff Grate was blessed with abundant natural ability. Superbly coordinated and very strong, Grate burst on the Harvard sports scene as a jumping-jack sophomore basketball player. Only 6-1, he could leap with the Ivy centers, had a quick, accurate jump shot and looked like a sure-fire all-time Harvard great. In the spring of that sophomore year, Grate won the starting shortstop position on the varsity baseball team and won the Wendell Bat, awarded the team's most effective offensive player. Then he ran into eligibility problems and just managed to get through...