Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 3-4 p.m.). In "Four Days to Omaha," a young man sets out to learn about his dead soldier-father by retracing his foot steps from London to an Omaha Beach cemetery in Normandy...
...first time since the U.S. committed itself to combat in Viet Nam, the Communist foot soldier was thus able to fight during the week with little fear of shells and bombs, rifleman .o rifleman. Giap knew that he would take huge losses, but he hoped that the cost in allied lives would also be great; he has long since proved that he considers one American life worth five of his own in the campaign to weary the U.S. of the war. That, too, characterized his war against the French, where at Dienbienphu he even budgeted 100% casualties?and took...
...guerrilla warfare, a tactician of such talents that U.S. military experts have compared him with German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. "You know when he's in charge," said a top Pentagon official last week. "You can feel him there." Yet Giap had no formal training as a soldier. "The only military academy I have been to," he boasted after Dienbienphu, "is that of the bush...
...North Koreans escaped, and a nationwide man hunt spread out to catch them before they could get back through the DMZ. By week's end all but ten had been caught, but only one alive. The rest died shooting, killing 18 people in the process, including a U.S. soldier guarding...
...justices' questions immediately went to the heart of those arguments. Chief Justice Earl Warren asked O'Brien's attorney whether it would also be symbolic speech for a soldier in Viet Nam to "break his weapon in front of other soldiers?" As for the purpose of O'Brien's card, added Warren, "we have millions of people in this country floating around. What if he is found in Arizona and he refuses to give any information and the Government wants his card so that it can know his draft status...