Word: united
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loved true honour more than fame," read the inscription under the picture of Robert Gardner in the Nashua, N.H. high school yearbook of 1941. Gardner became a professional soldier, fought under General George Patton in World War II, served in a combat unit in Korea. This spring Staff Sergeant Gardner was sent to South Viet Nam as a military "adviser." It was to be the last overseas assignment of his 20-year hitch; next year he planned to retire and enroll in a Florida umpires' school in hopes of becoming a major-league baseball umpire...
...homes in a building tract go, the new ones in Woodland West, a 1,500-unit development in suburban Fort Worth, Texas, had all the features that sell...
...citation called her "an inspirational example of the Judeo-Christian concept of the family unit as the heart of the divine plan for the good society," and energetic Ethel Skakel Kennedy, 33, mother of seven majoring in home economics, was delighted to receive her first honorary degree as Doctor of Humane Letters at the Benedictine St. Bernard College in Cullman, Ala. Done up in black gown and mortarboard, the Attorney General's wife then told 4,000 guests about the recent White House dinner for Nobel laureates. Everything was going along smoothly, recalled Ethel, until she overheard Chemist Linus...
Unwritten rule said three months behind Japanese lines was the most a man could stand. The actual Marauders eventually fell apart, demoralized. The picture does not concern itself with the politics of the historical incident: only after a high-level investigation were the Marauders given their unit citation and their place among the great heroes of military history. Analyzing nothing, the film makes no point except that a godless Book of Job was written in Burma 18 years...
...reserve service, Arizona's Republican Senator Barry M. Goldwater, 53, had few commands he could relish more. Recently promoted to major general, Goldwater accepted his new two-star flag in a Pentagon ceremony and took over the 999th Air Force Reserve Squad ron, a catchall Capitol Hill unit that includes 13 Democrats - three Senators and ten Congressmen...