Word: regular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bulk of government forces is now assigned to pacification: 54 of the regular ARVN's 154 battalions, nearly all the R.F.s and P.F.s. It is not a task that the ARVN has yet mastered; in 1967, the Viet Cong killed more pacification workers than in 1966. The ARVN regulars constitute South Viet Nam's military spine, and on them the U.S. has expended its greatest training efforts. Those efforts, too, need improvement. Of the ten regular divisions, only three are considered "good" by U.S. commanders: the 1st in northernmost I Corps, and the 7th and 21st...
...Bruins have paid it-in injuries as well as penalties and fines. Defenseman Green missed two games with a badly bruised knee. Orr earlier this season had his nose broken twice within a week, and he was sidelined for half of December with a fractured collarbone. Both regular Boston goalies, Eddie Johnston and Gerry Cheevers, are laid up with injuries, and the Bruins had to make do last week with Andre Gill, a 5-ft. 7-in. 155-pounder who was hurriedly called up from the minors. Like everybody else who has seen them play this year, Gill was mightily...
...curiosity of the current college-basketball season is that a regular on what Wichita State Coach Gary Thompson calls "the second best team in the country" only occasionally gets a chance to play. That team is the second string of the U.C.L.A. Bruins, who last week won their 40th game in a row, demolishing Minnesota 95-55, as 7-ft. 1½-in. Lew Alcindor poured in 28 points and grabbed 15 rebounds...
Next, as controlling director of the foundation, he appoints himself to do his regular work for the benefit of the foundation. For the work, the foundation pays him a relatively small salary, on which he pays income taxes. But the foundation also gives him fringe benefits, such as use of his car, a large life-insurance policy, perhaps even educational grants for his children...
...meant to keep "an element of humor in our institutional affairs"), uses prayers from Buddhism, Tantric Yoga and Mohawk moccasins in its pseudo-marriage ceremonies. One popular center of hippie worship in Los Angeles is the Oracle-Cosmic Joy Fellowship, whose prelates are known as "coordinators." At its regular services, worshipers sit cross-legged in an incense-clouded room festooned with Indian print cloths, statues of Buddha and votive candles, holding hands and ecstatically chanting "Om" (a Hindu word signifying "the ultimate religion...