Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...breakfast time on a jungle road in Viet Nam last week, Dwight Owen killed a Communist and saw dozens of Americans die. On patrol with a 1st Infantry Division search-and-destroy unit in the Iron Triangle 35 miles northwest of Saigon, the gangling (6 ft. 4½ in.) 19-year-old was walking down a path munching his B rations when a Viet Cong .50-cal. machine gun opened fire. Then, from all four sides and above, more machine guns, grenade launchers and snipers' rifles poured lead into the detachment, felling two G.I.s instantly. From a thicket where...
Zapped Again. It was on the second day of the patrol that the unit got bush whacked. When the Communists opened fire, Owen struggled loose to form a defensive formation with half a dozen others. After firing a few rounds, his weapon jammed. "I'd never fired an M-14 before," he says. "I figured I'd better learn." Yanking out the blocked magazine, Owen replaced it and aimed at what looked like a moving tree. It spun sideways and fell. "Man, I was really praying then," he says. To stay alive? "Heck, no," he replies earnestly...
Down in the Mekong Delta, South Vietnamese infantrymen flushed another hidden hard-core Viet Cong unit into fierce fighting scarcely 40 miles southwest of Saigon. The Communists blasted back with machine guns and 57-mm recoilless rifles. Saigon soon concluded that it had a veteran Viet Cong battalion at bay, ordered in the largest number of Vietnamese troops to be used in a single battle in the long war to try to encircle and crush the Reds...
This is not the first case in which a local board has confused the 12 unit course load with a "half-time" course load and has classified a student 1-A. But in past cases a letter from the University has been sufficient evidence of "normal progress" to reverse the decision and secure deferment on appeal...
...BUFFALO, the biggest unit in the system, has 11,000 students. It grew out of the underfinanced private University of Buffalo, still occupies that school's overcrowded 178-acre campus in North Buffalo, but will move to a $131 million, 1,000-acre campus designed to handle 27,500 students. Buffalo's School of Pharmacy leads the nation in pharmaceutical research expenditures. Its School of Medicine has performed spectacular research in studying ways to enable dogs to breathe water, and the med school's Dr. Robert Guthrie is the developer of a simple test to spot brain...