Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...European theater campaigns of World War II and won the Silver and Bronze Stars. He got his Silver Star in October 1944 when he was a 22-year-old second lieutenant with the U.S. 7th Armored Division then fighting in The Netherlands. He was leading a platoon in a unit that was locked in combat with German forces for control of a canal when the Germans broke through. Mulliken and two of his men fought a delaying action while the rest of his platoon withdrew. Dug in, the three helped hold off the Germans for nine hours...
Death in the Hay. With a battalion of undertrained rookies, Johnson-still a lieutenant colonel after eight years-was assigned to the Pusan perimeter, where he moved into position as a reserve unit. The next day the Communists overran the front lines. Johnson's battalion fought like veterans-and held. Later, near Tabu-dong, Johnson himself led a counterattack to regain a key sector, earning the nation's second highest award, the Distinguished Service Cross, for "extraordinary heroism in action." As Lieut. Colonel George Allen of Fairfax, Va., then one of his platoon leaders, recalls the battle...
...piastre, the Vietnamese monetary unit; FUNNY MONEY and RED DOLLARS mean scrip issued U.S. personnel in lieu of dollars...
...over the last previous election. >Fulton County (Atlanta), Ga., is one of several that has used a nifty little number called the IBM Votomatic. Invented by Dr. Joseph P. Harris, a retired University of California political science professor, it weighs a mere 6 Ibs. and costs $185 per unit (against $1,800 for the present automatic voting machines, which, because of their size, are also far more expensive to store). Votomatic works by electronic punch card. As with the Coleman system, the precinct ballots must eventually be taken to a centralized computer headquarters...
...BINGHAMTON is the only university unit devoted entirely to liberal arts. It is building on the scholarly fame of its incorporated Harpur College, which in turn had been created by Syracuse University to handle the G.I. Bill student surge. More than three-fourths of Bing hamton's students come from the top 10% of their high-school classes. The school has an enthusiastic new president in former University of Delaware Arts and Science Dean Bruce Dearing "It's exciting to be somewhere that's growing rather than just tend the shop where someone else...