Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...learn how to evade their captors' questions. Even at night, G.I.s in the main camp are liable to be attacked by "terrorists" from Vinh Hoa. Above all, they are taught to be on the alert against enemy ambush. Says Sergeant Louis A. Peterson, a Viet Nam veteran whose unit lost several men in surprise attacks by the Viet Cong: "We try to stage the same types of ambush here that happened to us. I don't see where too much more could be done...
...married men is simply to sire a little deferment. A man may also join the Reserve or National Guard, but he must serve on active duty for four to six months, attend meetings for the rest of his six-year obligation, and be ready for active duty if his unit is called up during an emergency; besides, many National Guard and most Reserve units already have full quotas. Then there is the Peace Corps, but that only delays the inevitable, since a man is immediately subject to the draft once he returns home. The new draft pressure has produced heavier...
Johnson's formula would not alter the traditional unit-rule system by which a candidate gets all of a state's electoral vote regardless of how small his popular plurality. Thus a nominee could still conceivably get a majority of the nationwide popular vote and yet lose the election. However, since it would make modest improvements without involving drastic change, there is a fair chance that this amendment will win the two-thirds majorities in Congress necessary to send it to the states for ratification...
Awaiting his internship, Hammer felt the call to perform some international good deeds. He bought a surplus field-hospital unit, including ambulance, from the U.S. Government, took it to Russia with every intention of providing medical treatment for the peasants. But when he discovered the famine in the Volga region, he told the Soviets that there was a glut of wheat in the U.S. and thereupon made a deal. For American wheat he bartered Russian furs, hides and caviar. Recalls Hammer: "Lenin called me to the Kremlin and said: 'We don't need doctors. We need Americans...
...assassin himself. Accompanied by thumping kettledrums, 007 methodically works the villain over with karate punches and a well-placed kick, then strangles him to death. A clatter of cymbals brings on a gang of bodyguards as 007 bounds onto a balcony, coolly dons his one-man rocket unit and goes whooshing up, up and away to a shattering chorus of gunfire and screeching trumpets...