Word: united
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...native Viet Nam soldiers are coming into their own. French officers, once hostile to their small, thin allies, now speak enthusiastically of the Viet Nam soldiers, report them gaining in strength and spirit. Last week, in an isolated post 30 miles south of Hanoi, a small Viet Nam unit fought off Communist attacks until relieved by a column of their own armor and infantry. The tough little Viet Nam soldiers evacuated their wounded, rebuilt their fortifications, put in a new garrison, and waited for the Communists to attack again...
...Soon after the fighting began in Korea, the Army put its new doctrine, now well polished and better balanced, into practice. Every man is treated as close to the front as possible. He spends a minimum of time away from his own unit. He must never be encouraged to think that his upset may help him to escape from combat. On the contrary, he is told that he has just "had a bit too much," and should be back in there pitching in a day or two. Treatment centers bear no resemblance to hospitals, look like front-line units with...
...After two years of Oberlin, World War I took Thornton into a coast-defense unit ("I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal"). But by that time he was a Yaleman after all. Thornton wrote for the Lit, joined the Elizabethan Club, quoted Goethe with Sophomore Robert Hutchins. Thornton's room became a salon, where he would read his plays aloud or hold forth on the gloomy beauties of George Gissing. Professor William Lyon Phelps exclaimed: "I believe he is a genius." Mr. Wilder demurred: "Oh, tut-tut-tut, Billy, you're puffing...
After several previous attempts, the University has succeeded in buying a piece of real estate on De Wolfe St., opposite Leverett House, known locally as the "Brennan Property." Workmen, pictured above, have started tearing down the unit...
...unit, schoolboy hockey has already been curtailed. House team schedules have also suffered from the Arena's "economy policies apparently, "make it pay or else...