Word: united
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aircraft carrier Hermes, ready to move into the Red Sea from Aden. The U.S. carrier Intrepid, ostensibly bound for Viet Nam, transited the Suez Canal as anti-American demonstrators waved their shoes at the ship in the Egyptian equivalent of a Bronx cheer. An eleven-unit U.S. antisubmarine group headed toward the Mideast; the British commando carrier Albion broke off maneuvers in the North Sea and made for an undisclosed destination...
...were the Army Chief of Staff, or at least Cassius Clay getting into khakis. But the commanding and familiar figure that strode past the barracks was dressed in civvies. The only martial markings were a brass wire on his right wrist, symbolizing his initiation into a Montagnard unit in Viet Nam and, on his other wrist, a watch crystal worn inward, combat style, to which was attached a gold tag with name and address, presumably to notify next of kin if anything happened to the bearer. The tag read: JOHN WAYNE...
...remarkably well educated. Quarterback Charley Johnson of pro football's St. Louis Cardinals is currently studying for a Ph.D. in chemical engineering; Frank Ryan of the Cleveland Browns already has his Ph.D. (his dissertation: "A Characterization of the Set of Asymptotic Values of a Function Holomorphic in the Unit Disc"), and during the off season he is an assistant professor of mathematics at Case Institute of Technology. Coach Harold Laycoe of the Portland, Ore., Buckaroos says with wonderment: "We even have a sprinkling of college graduates in pro hockey now. When I broke in, in 1945, there...
...night that he doubted the Committee on Houses -- which includes the Masters -- would recommend expansion of the classes, because that would probably mean either increasing the number of off-campus students affiliated with each House, or else creating "a Dudley House so large it would become a separate administrative unit of the College...
There were, however, many Dutch unit commanders who suffered from the same unbelievable quiescence and lack of imagination that later plagued the U.S. brass at Pearl Harbor. Disturbed by previous false alarms, they now simply ignored the warning by the Dutch High Command...