Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lovett was born in Texas, the son of Robert Scott Lovett, general counsel and then president of Union Pacific. Young Bob left Yale (Phi Beta Kappa, Skull & Bones) during his third year to go overseas with the Yale Unit in the naval air force. In France he flew the lumbering British Handley Pages on some of the first night glide-bombing attacks, made a careful study of dive-bombing tactics which amazed his friends and delighted the Navy brass. The unit's historian summed up Lieut. Lovett in three words: "Observation, reflection, deduction-and there you were...
...enemy's big push, if it comes in the next week or two, will probably be launched in the flatter terrain of the west. From the central mountains to the U.N.'s western anchor on the Imjin, troops and unit commanders braced themselves every day and every night...
...Bulgarians, 243,500,000 Chinese, and so many Hungarian signatures that apparently every Hungarian down to two-and-a-half-year-olds had signed. The Peace Partisans collected thumbprints from illiterate East Indians, summoned African Negroes to peace-signing with jungle drums. Complained an Italian Communist: "During the last unit meeting, I told them I had already signed. The organizer replied: 'Peace can be served with one, two, three, or 20 signatures.' So I signed again...
...Unit size depends on the quality of the applicants, but the Air Force had 90 in the Class of '54 and would have the facilities for even more now. The Army unit is hoping to get between 100 and 125. Student and faculty pressure last February led this group to take in 100 more men because of the increasingly confusing draft picture. That resulted in about 150 Army men in the whole class...
...made with flush-riveting. The scorched areas were entirely too small to have been caused by a napalm bomb, which burns up thousands of square feet of terrain. The Chinese soldier gave the show away when he said that the attacking plane had its headlights on; no U.N. air unit attacks with lights on at night. After first checking the whereabouts of every U.N. plane that night, Matt Ridgway denounced the affair as a "frame-up" and scorned it as an "amateurishly staged presentation . . ." The Communists, in turn, denounced Ridgway's reply as "savage" and "contemptible," charged further attempts...