Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battle was entirely a Vietnamese victory. Two companies of a Ranger battalion were moving along a canal line 22 miles southwest of the Delta's largest city, Can Tho, when they ran into two Viet Cong battalions: the local force U Minh 10 and the 303rd main force unit. In a fierce fight that raged through most of one day, the South Vietnamese killed 265 of the V.C., and supporting helicopters and fighter-bombers accounted for another 100 dead. The total of 365 enemy dead was the largest ever inflicted in a Delta battle, with more probably to come...
...forces in South Viet Nam retain a dangerous capability for terrorism and guerrilla warfare." Just how unsafe some Viet Cong feel was demonstrated last week. A platoon of Viet Cong, 38 strong, defected and turned themselves in to some startled South Vietnamese south of Danang. It was the largest unit defection...
Simultaneously time-sharing has started to expand faster than batch-processing. The Medical School, and medicine in general, have started buying large chunks of time on the SDS 940. One new project responsible for this upsurge is a heart-care unit to monitor continuous heart-patient problems, and to detect subtler signs of danger than the cardiologist can ordinarily hope to notice. Consoles also aid interviews with patients suspected of having genetic problems, by rapidly accumulating genetic history...
...this essentially rural set fails to provide a wholly satisfactory backdrop for the scenes of court and town, it works wonders in transforming the less-than-congenial dining hall atmosphere into a proper stage. The use of an elaborate unit of limited flexibility benefits house theatre tremendously, even when it makes certain transformations impossible. The costumes demonstrate similar virtues: none are overlavish, all are colorful and consistent with the whole, and all show good period spirit. A surprising number of principals look handsome and easy in potentially difficult clothes...
Immediately after the match the team departed for West Point. Harvard hasn't lost to Army in squash since the 1940's, but Barnaby is wary of the service team. "They're dangerous not as individual champions, but as a unit," he said. "They're tough and they're belligerent. They play every game like football...