Word: united
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DIRTY DOZEN. A World War II major (Lee Marvin) is ordered to transform twelve criminals and psychopaths from the camp stockade into a fighting unit fit for a suicide mission behind enemy lines. The denouement is loud and bloody...
...that they can be an effective force against all but the biggest riots-especially in the early stages. New York's 690-man Tactical Patrol Force, created in 1959 to deal with Negro and Puerto Rican youth gangs, and later converted to riot control, is perhaps the best unit of its kind in the country. The elite T.P.F. members are all volunteers and average a vigorous 26 years in age; many of them have served in the Marines and paratroopers. Though most are experts at judo or karate, they are drilled to work in teams...
...took Dick Williams, the new Boston manager, to turn these potentially good players into a cohesive unit. Boston has long had the reputation as an undisciplined, live-it-up team, and has been a graveyard for managers. When Williams came on-to the scene, he laid down the law: no overweight players, no sore-armed pitchers, no lazy self-centered attitudes. He showed he meant business by benching his good players when they started to lapse back into their old habits...
...School of Public Health, Dr. Bernard Lown, Director of the Coronary Care Unit at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and developer of the Cardioverter--an electronic instrument which corrects abnormal heart rhythms--has been promoted to Associate Professor of Cardiology in Public Health...
...turned up in a South Vietnamese jail. Though he did not know it, Be, 21, had been made a Communist hero in both North and South for having destroyed 69 of the enemy-and himself-by blowing up a mine in their midst after they had surrounded his unit (TIME, March 17). U.S. psychological-warfare men were delighted when they confirmed that the boyish prisoner in the jail at My Tho was the same Be who is held up for emulation to Communist cadres in mass-produced Communist poetry, songs and stories...