Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fait accompli failed here, and Harvard finally had to plumb its own treasury for the eight hundred pounds due. Even then, Wadsworth House was not wholly done. 1783 saw the two wings and the ell on the north side. The brick part was built in 1810 as a separate unit and sixty years later was spun around to adjoin the ell. The most recent change was in 1950 when the east wing was widened and a doorway opened into Wigglesworth...
...Army $8.8 billion, down $50 million. The President's statement that the Army will be organized into smaller, more powerful units, plus the Pentagon's deadpan announcement that Army unit strength "will be different at the end of the year," appears to promise a major reorganization...
...Americans stepped through the Iron Curtain last week, free men. Private William Marchuk, 38, of Norristown, Pa., who disappeared from his Army unit in Berlin in 1949, asked for a cigarette and grunted, as he dragged on it: "First American cigarette in six years." His companion, John H. Noble, 31, of Detroit, had been arrested by the Russians in Dresden in 1945. Said he: "I have much to tell...
...College has had a graduate school. Since that starting fall the school has expanded to 350 women, and has become one of the world's finest graduate schools. But in the process of outgrowing its tiny office in Fay House, it has also outgrown its usefulness as a separate unit from Harvard...
...army itself, some 200,000 strong, is crosscut with internal plots and counterplots. Soldiers in the same unit often do not have the same type weapons. The chief of staff, handsome, greying General Bambang Sugeng, has had no military training. Many of the army's seven territorial commanders operate, in fact, as private warlords, some in almost outright rebellion. The worst of the army's difficulties, however, can be traced directly to Defense Minister Iwa Kusumasumantri, a bull-necked Marxist of 55, who professes not to be a Communist, though as a young man he went to meetings...