Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Three Ms. Last week Thailand's rural revolution was in full swing. Even as the first monsoons turned the dusty red roads of the northeast into glutinous scars, hundreds of Mobile Development Unit personnel were crisscrossing the area in Jeeps, junks and oxcarts, spreading Western technology and anti-Communist temerity like spring rice. The propaganda was even fun. Through the northeast's villages rumbled government-sponsored Mobile Information Teams, carrying everything but a merry-go-round. While some teammates distributed schoolbooks, pencils and pictures of King Bhumibol, others tended a queue of sick peasants. Over all blared...
...move toward automation, is also making a bid for the under-$50 market that now accounts for three of every four cameras sold. Because of their built-in dark rooms, the instant-image Polaroid cameras were originally $100-plus luxury items. But as of April, a $60 unit was introduced, and by July Polaroid will put a $20 model on the market...
...greatest difficulties besetting newsmen arise from the nature of the war itself. It must be remembered that this is the first modern war involving Americans with scarcely any units to which correspondents can be attached. In three previous wars, correspondents were attached to armies or corps or divisions or air wings or some other military unit. That unit assumed basic responsibility for the correspondent's billeting, food, transportation and, let it be remembered, censorship of his copy...
...perimeter defense of the big airbases at Danang and Hué; they have been drastically restricted in seeking out the enemy. But last week they were told to start "aggressive reconnaissance patrolling." They did just that, and within a few hours, one Marine patrol sought out a Viet Cong unit in a hamlet nine miles outside of Danang, engaged in a 30-minute fire fight, and sent the Communists scurrying...
...also professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Surgery for the Harvard Services at BCH, added that the University has taken its share of responsibility for the status of the hospital. "The administrative structure of the hospital and the city officials should function as a unit bringing in the universities, as they have, as copartners," he said...