Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Inchon, to which it is joined by a long causeway. The northern end of the tiny island had boasted a large inn, complete with swimming pool, where Inchon's successful merchants could enjoy the summer breezes. After the Communists invaded South Korea, they set up a small guard unit on the island, ringed it with earthworks and hastily dug trenches...
...Mario Zafred, 28, music critic for Rome's Communist L'Unitá, sneers at twelve-tone theories ("It's no different from boxing, except in the ring you count only to ten"), prefers to follow Moscow-dictated formulas for "non-decadent" music. The first and last movements of his Resistance Symphony were brash and hackneyed enough to please the most fastidious commissar. But in the soft-spoken second movement and the effervescent scherzo, Zafred's melodic sense and Latin high spirits almost rattled the composition off its one-track party line...
...Weber is the only member of the squad to be hit by the latest service requirements. First string left guard on the freshman team last year, Weber was called to active duty by his National Guard unit. As Jordan pointed out on the first day of fall practice, the service will level all college teams--all except the Army...
Magsaysay wasted no time in announcing his own, three-point program for dealing with the Huks. It was a lulu. The program : 1) organize a unit of Negrito tribesmen to clean the Huks out of three major provinces ("The Negritos," said Magsaysay, "know the mountains better and are more deadly with the bow & arrow than the Huks are with a gun"); 2) import some bloodhounds from the U.S. to help track the Huks through the jungles; 3) dump all captured and surrendered Huks on an uninhabited island and there teach them the democratic way of life...
...there is always another attack, and finally there is the one that every seasoned combat unit has at some time, or many times, experienced, the one where the odds are too great. Brave Company ends with such an attack, and Wilson's description of it can stand as a document. Writers of realistic war novels, most of whose realism is the product of imagination, can find out what is missing from their books by reading Brave Company...