Word: united
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dday. H-hour. A landing craft touched and stopped off Pointe du Hoc between Utah and Omaha beaches. Out jumped a combat unit, including three grizzly-looking soldiers who crossed 150 yds. of pebble beach through a heavy traffic of westbound bullets, fired a grappling hook to the top of a cliff and began to scale it. "We'll never make it," said one of them. "Three old ladies with brooms could keep us off this cliff...
...Manhole. The increase of people hooked on sound matches the steep curve of radio sales. Buyers snatched up a few thousand portable transistor sets when they first hit the market in late 1954; last year, including Japanese-made sets that brought the prices down to well under $10, unit sales rose to a record 8,500,000. Like other addicts, the bleatniks are ingenious in their devotion to their pastime. They attend baseball games, trusty radio in hand, and tune in on the sportscaster to be certain that the announcer sees what the bleacherite sees; sometimes the fan tunes...
...than it did from German bullets. Even in the famed Guards regiments, few of the hastily called-up reservists had seen, much less fired, a shot in anger until their first encounter with the Germans. The ist Armored Division arrived at the Western Front with mockup plywood tanks; another unit had six mobile movie houses, but only a handful of obsolete antitank weapons...
...Kiplingesque amalgam: the time of the play is 1925, but Victoria has not yet relinquished the throne of England). So passive a character is Gay that the three soldiers can erase his individuality altogether--originally weak and insignificant, and a pacifist, he is made to join their machine gun unit to replace a man whose absence would expose the soldiers as temple robbers. Given the missing man's identification card, he becomes a ferocious super-hero who captures a mountain fort with five idiots. Anyone can be molded; no one is unique: Mann ist mann. (The dangers of attempting...
...quick survey of internal development in Algeria, Mme. Cordebas analysed the social revolution which is destroying the old tribal base, and which has witnessed the growth of the immediate family as the unit of social life. Many of Algeria's young men have studied in Metropolitan France, she explained. When they return home, their opinions tend to take precedence over those of the tribal chief...