Word: setups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...road, railway and power line running straight from Hanoi to Haiphong. Small crossroads, sticking out like ribs, are nodal points at which the French concentrate their mobile reserves ready to put out to any threatened place on the delta's edge. The lowest echelon in this setup is what the French call autodéfence, i.e., self-defense by a kind of village home guard, armed with ten to 100 rifles. The home guard's function is to repel light attack and inform the French of enemy movements...
...announcing the change Gordon stated that the number of Harvard students taken will be increased from four to eight. Under the previous setup, the four undergraduates were complemented by three faculty assistants, chosen from graduate schools all over the country...
Although there are "apparent evils" in the setup here, the council admitted that the H.A.A. method may well be the best possible...
...face of such criticism, and also because it now had more funds,
the Air Force last week rejuggled its command to give its stepchild
Tactical Air Command equal status with Strategic Air Command
(long-range bombers). Under the new setup, TAG will be commanded by
able, pugnacious Lieut. General John K. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, 58, one
of the Air Corps' oldtime hell-for-leather pilots,
...inquiry, has felled many a Harvard committee. The committee on parietal rules that was born in the Student Council chamber Monday night must not be allowed to succumb. Just by staying alive, it can do a valuable service in pointing up the impracticality and inequity of the present entertainment setup...