Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public pronouncements. Presumably, he was misled by his intelligence unit. Nearly all military experts agree Westmoreland has underestimated Communist strength-or overestimated the effectiveness of Viet Nam's regular army and paramilitary units. His own command admits the strength of the enemy Tet offensive came as a shock...
...part of every man's routine. "It's a modus vivendi," says Protestant Chaplain Ray Stubbe, 29. "The men run for shelter, but they don't cringe when they get there." Except for an occasional case of what the corpsmen call "acute environmental reaction" (shell shock), the Marines at Khe Sanh are taking their ordeal with considerable composure. Only their unwelcome bunkermates-the rats-be come frantic under fire. When the "in coming" starts, the rats race for the bunkers and wildly run up to the ceilings made of runway matting and logs. One sergeant has killed...
Wearing the Green. The week did produce one real shock when Italy's 27-year-old Franco Nones became the first person other than a Scandinavian or Russian ever to win an Olympic cross-country ski race. A wiry customs agent from Castello di Fiemme in the Dolomites, the tireless Nones sped 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) in 1 hr. 35 min. 39.2 sec., to beat Norway's Odd Martinsen by the margin of 49.7 sec.-roughly the equivalent of three city blocks. Some experts credited Nones' victory to the wax he used on his skis -a special...
...possible setback, it was generally assumed, is not the time to back down. While admitting that the attacks may have been a "humbling experience" for the U.S., the somewhat dovish Chicago Daily News declared that they also bore a "message" that should not be missed in the "shock over the sight of blood." The "image of the enemy" said the News, "has altered from that of one stubborn but perhaps amenable to negotiation to that of one arrogantly confident he can smash the American will to fight. President Johnson was right in saying that it is not so much...
...smug psychiatrist proposes to jar the supposed madman back to sanity by the ploy of having the portrait of his young love come to life in the person of her daughter. Seeing the elder and the younger woman side by side does indeed shock the pseudo Henry-to the point of stabbing his old love rival to death. By this sudden act of murder, the Emperor loses his freedom and is imprisoned in the illusions and fantasies of which he was previously the master...