Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Viet Nam is no place for the 90-day wonder or the left-footed recruit. It is a place for the career man, the highly trained specialist. Because of this, the U.S. force in Viet Nam is top-heavy with officers; of 15,200 Army personnel, about 5,000 are commissioned...
...SPECIALIST 5TH CLASS LARRY C. NIEDRINGHAUS, 22, serves as the demolitions expert for a twelve-man U.S. Special Forces team at Suoida, a bleak, wire-enclosed camp at the base of Black Virgin Mountain, 60 miles northwest of Saigon. Niedringhaus first came to Viet Nam in 1962, at his own request is now serving his third tour of duty. Says he: "Damned if I can think of any place I'd rather be or anything I'd rather...
Maybe so. In the French newsmagazine L'Express, a leftist reporter freshly returned from a month-long sojourn among the Communist Viet Cong, implied as much. Asian Specialist Georges Chaffard said that the Viet Cong are demoralized by continued U.S. bombings in the South, that their supplies from North Viet Nam have been rudely interrupted by American air strikes (as well as by malaria and dysentery along the Ho Chi Minh trail), that they are losing support among the people, and that the Communists are now regrouping in the mountain plateaus above Saigon as if for a last stand...
...John Kirklin, a specialist in open surgery, will examine Yovicsin, will probably perform an open-heart to correct the murmur...
...give adequate recogniton to the teaching skill as well as the research performance of the faculty; how to create a curriculum that serves the needs of the students as well as the research interest of the teacher; how to prepare the generalist as well as the specialist in an age of specialization looking for better generalizations; how to treat the individual student as a unigue human being in the mass student body; how to make the university seem smaller even as it grows larger; how to establish a range of contact between faculty and students broader than...