Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shot down the first MIG-15. The Eighth Fighter-Bomber Group put out of action 504 enemy tanks, 540 flak guns, 441 locomotives, 5,800 trucks in 22 months. Major General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnel's 22nd Bombardment Wing proved that a B-29 SAC unit could pack up, carry its own supplies 5,000 miles across an ocean, and be in action five days after receiving its orders to move. And it was obvious that SAC squadrons in the U.S. stood alone against any Russian temptation to seize on the diversionary little war as an excuse...
...Crimson lost to Dartmouth Saturday with only two midfields; the return of Sawyer would eliminate this problem. Munro thinks he would then team Hank Wood and Jim Telfer with Sawyer as the third unit...
...Arizona, Taft men wanted the state delegation committed to the unit rule, and the Eisenhower forces rebelled. When the argument tied the state convention in parliamentary knots, Pro-Taft Author Clarence Budington Kelland, national committeeman, seized the microphone and roared: "This convention is approaching a point of absurdity. It is a completely ridiculous mess. I move to get out of this mess that we adjourn." Finally, the convention abandoned the unit rule, did about what it was expected to: ten delegates for Taft, two for Eisenhower, two uncommitted...
Another doubtful starter is sophomore first-midfielder Skip Baldwin, who's also fighting a leg injury. With Baldwin out, Munro would have to move Henry Wood up from the third unit, and try to beat the rough-playing Indians with only two midfields, a very tough assignment...
...ROTC--a military unit of any kind--is an abomination on any college campus. For a college to tolerate the existence of such a unit during peacetime, when very few students are interested in it, and most look with contempt upon it (and correctly so), is more of a concession than should properly be allowed. To permit it to take a position of as great importance in college as it has at present at Harvard is completely out of keeping with all that the University stands for and aims toward. Harvard is not, and should not be educating its students...