Word: united
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good-looking state senator, seems to have a chance against Griffin. Sanders has the backing of a host of anti-Griffinites, including Georgia's key newspapers (the "Atlanta integrationist press," as Griffin calls it). Sanders also figures to benefit by the fact that Georgia's county-unit voting system has at last been overthrown by the courts. In years past, state elections in Georgia were decided not on popular votes but on a complex system where by each county was permitted so many unit votes in the ballot box. Invariably, this gave the rural counties a hugely...
...picking up the white telephone in his Tampa headquarters and ordering surprise alerts at all hours of the day and night, Adams has turned STRIKE into a fighting unit braced for a sprinter's start. "In one night, we can pick up a force of three or four fighter squadrons, six to eight reconnaissance planes, and an Army-reinforced battle group and have them on their way," says Adams. "If we really wanted to break our necks, the first troops could be in the air within two hours from a cold start...
Adams, who seemed to be everywhere on the battlefield, made a point of eating supper one night in the field with a bearded guerrilla unit wearing tattered civilian clothes. The menu: catfish stew and fried water moccasin. "You keeping clean?" Adams asked one guerrilla. "Yes, sir," was the reply. "We wash our socks and underclothes every day. It doesn't get them clean, but it keeps the smell out." "That's important," said the general with approval. "Always keep the clothes next to your body clean. When you're moving fast, that's what slows...
...Applied Psychology Research Unit in Cambridge, Drs. Robert T. Wilkinson and Donald Broadbent got Royal Navy volunteers to go 60 hours without sleep. The test subjects worked for 4½-hour stretches, then got 1½ hours off for a meal and rest-but no sleep. After two wide-awake nights, the sailors still did well at intellectually stimulating or competitive tasks such as playing chess, darts or pingpong. But they tended to nod at routine and tedious jobs, no matter how simple-like checking a manuscript for typists' errors...
Soliven asserted that the people of Laos have no common heritage and that the many tribes which make up "what is known as Laos" do not even realize that they belong to the same country. This has complicated the problem of trying to unite the Laotian people into a cogent fighting unit capable of resisting the advancing communists...