Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MUZEEKA has as its hero Jack Argue. He composes rapturous songs from the words on a penny and dreams of being an ancient Etruscan, but he spends his life as an employee of a piped-in music firm and dies in Viet Nam with a unit assigned to fight before NBC cameras exclusively. John Guare's debut as a playwright displays a store of rich imagery and imagination...
...side, Lieut. Colonel Tran Van Dae, brought with him the complete battle plan. Nonetheless, the Communists attacked, launching 26 battalions toward the city, more than twice as many as employed during Tet. With the allies waiting, it was a lemming-like march to almost certain destruction. Not a major unit got inside Saigon proper. Many of the attackers were so youthful and green and recently infiltrated that they got lost en route. Some 5,000 were killed, and another defector, North Vietnamese Regimental Commander Lieut. Colonel Truong Trung Doan, surrendered because he had been ordered to make suicidal attacks. Militarily...
...stickmen to be named to the first team. The others are Mark Webster, the league's leading goal-scorer with 21, at attack, Bob Smith at midfield, and Henry Gompf at defense. Pete Peirce and Dick Belsito were named to the second team, and Dwight Webster on the third unit...
...board of directors is unopposed, the offer is most likely to be accepted; the steel company will probably become the biggest single unit in a conglomerate that already includes such divisions as Wilson meats, sporting goods and chemicals, Okonite cable and floor coverings, airplane, missile and electronics manufacturing and, since last February, Braniff Airlines and National Car Rental...
...surrendered, one of the biggest such catches of the war. A body count turned up another 135 dead, bringing the total to 352 in the 76-hour battle. Allied losses were eight killed and 37 wounded. Among the Communist dead were the commander of the North Vietnamese unit-the 8th Battalion-his executive officer and three company commanders. All told for the week in eastern I Corps, the allies killed 1,370 Communist troops while suffering 110 dead of their...