Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special liaison group have lived and worked daily with the Korean Tigers [July 22] since their arrival in Viet Nam. They rank professionally with any fighting unit we've known. We find them "brutally efficient," but nowhere have we seen any grave sitting, tae kwon do cheekbone splitting, or mutilation by skinning. Had the Tigers done these things, 695 Viet Cong would never have surrendered...
Also, Paper Bags. Then, there is all the action in the mines. Copper output has doubled since 1959, and Anaconda, American Smelting & Refining and Cerro Corp. are considering plans that could double it again by 1970. This would rank Peru with Chile and Zambia as world leaders in copper production. Even cautious old W. R. Grace & Co., which has been packing its bags in most Latin American countries, has announced a $50 million investment in papermaking and other projects over the next five years...
...area's crime rate is the highest in the city; flocks of prostitutes hustle passers-by at every chance; and hatred for the city's cops runs deep-the more so because the 2,140-man force has only 130 Negro members and only two above the rank of patrolman. The urban-renewal program in Hough has been labeled one of the nation's worst...
...purely quantitative measurement of piety, parochial-school graduates rank statistically higher than those with a secular education. For example, 86% of U.S. Catholics who went to church-run schools attend Mass regularly, compared with 64% of Catholics schooled secularly. While 66% of parochial-school Catholics are inclined to accept the church's ban on contraception, only 46% of Catholics who went to secular schools...
...They Run the Army." For his new assignment Wooldridge wears a specially designed lapel insignia. Though the rank brings no increase in his $657.30-a-month pay, it carries with it some perquisites that a mere major general might envy. Occupying Pentagon office 3E673, a capacious suite just across the corridor from General Johnson's headquarters, Wooldridge sits in a high-backed leather chair behind a large desk with a six-button phone, has a WAC receptionist and a full-time clerical assistant. At nearby Fort Myer, an air-conditioned, eight-room house has been remodeled for Wooldridge...