Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Cong provincial officials in the midst of a meeting; the dead included the Reds' Dinh Tuong province chief and the political commissar of the Viet Cong's 261st Battalion. Later in the same operation, air-supported South Vietnamese soldiers killed an estimated 255 Viet Cong, whose unit had been spotted along a canal...
...Those Units. The telephone company, said Wright afterward, "in effect was put in a position of disproving a negative." It naturally plans to appeal. Cried Garrett, raising his hands to the heavens, "Where can any of us find the burden of our proof? It's all buried somewhere in some tight steel vault." He explained darkly: "We never know what we're being charged for on those bills-all those message units. How do I know how many message units I've used? What is a message unit anyway? Who can evaluate the damages of each call...
Checking the Troops. Faas was spared a next time because he was transferred to Viet Nam in 1962. His life is in no less danger now, but he has learned how to take care of himself. "Before I go out with a unit, I check the troops," he explains. "Troops are good or troops are sloppy. If they are more interested in the chickens and ducks than in their packs, I don't go out with them." As the war escalates, Faas knows that his own chances of escaping unscathed are worsening. "Maybe after another battle," he said last...
Before conferring the degrees, Mrs. Carl J. Gilbert, acting President of Radcliffe, announced that the names have been chosen for the college's new library study-center and first unit of the Fourth House. The Susan Morse and Frederick Whiley Hilles Library and Mabel Daniels Hall will both be dedicated in the Fall of 1966, Mrs. Gilbert said...
...Mickey Mouse. White also spent some twelve hours rehearsing with Y "handheld self-maneuvering unit"-the gadget that was to help him walk around in space. The device weighs 7½ lbs., has two small cylinders of compressed oxygen belted to a handle that also acts as a trigger to send jets of air through two hollow tubes, each 2 ft. long. Holding the contraption just below his midriff White could, in his weightless state, manipulate it so as to send him, like a bit of fluff in the wind, in any direction he desired...