Word: regiments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Great British Train Robbery (TIME, April 21), a plausibly clever re-creation of the 1963 heist of ?2,631,784 from a Royal Mail train. In Robbery, the Limeys have tried to recapture the story for their own, using the talents of Stanley Baker, Joanna Pettet and a regiment of able character actors, and the cinema verite style of Director Peter Yates. The result, unfortunately, is a hot property gone tepid with time...
Spooked by Spooky. As the North Vietnamese fled south toward the rising foothills of the Central Highlands, the Marines, now six companies strong, took off in pursuit. But the North Vietnamese were retreating to an area where at least a full regiment of more than 1,000 men was already entrenched in dugouts and caves. At dusk, the Communists struck back at the outnumbered Marines. Bayonet-wielding North Vietnamese soldiers charged the U.S. positions; some got within 15 feet of Marine machine guns before they were cut down. Marines snatched grenades from their dead buddies and hurled them without taking...
...point out that all the work of grading and laying out the grounds around the Cambridge Public Library was done by Negroes. This is the same Higginson who was graduated from Harvard in 1841 and from 1862 to 1864 was the colonel in command of the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the United States. Among his extensive literary output was an account of his Civil War experiences and observations, Army Life in a Black Regiment, a magnificent classic that was recently reprinted in paperback; and he was the first to encourage Emily Dickinson, whose poetry he eventually...
SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "I Am A Soldier," John Secondari's excellent documentary, follows Captain Theodore S. Danielson as he leads Company A, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment in combat against the Viet Cong. Repeat...
King of Hearts. Provincial France. World War I. Retreating Germans plant a time bomb in a town square, preparing to explode it at midnight when Allied troops arrive. To foil the Boche plan, a Scottish regiment sends in a wide-eyed private (Alan Bates), who finds the town empty save for the inmates of a lunatic asylum. Spilling out of their bin and into the town, they find an abandoned circus with enough period costumes to outfit nine road companies of Marat-Sade...