Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prisoners had jumped a guard, wounded him with knife stabs and taken over everything but the administration building. The inmates also grabbed 29 hostages, including twelve members of a visiting Mormon church basketball team. While the prisoners ran amuck, smashing doors and windows, setting fires, Larson rushed a mobile unit right into the grounds, 2½ hours ahead of rival KUTV. A KTVT camera in the administration building picked up shots of prisoners at the end of a corridor behind bars that marked off their territory...
...unit of magnetism. The earth's magnetic field is approximately .3 of one gauss at New York City...
...real result of Wilson's action--and it's avowed purpose--is to intergrate the National Guard into the regular Reserve program. But there are still important differences which the Pentagon has not been able to attack successfully. For one, a Guard unit can be mobilized in its entirety and only by act of Congress, whereas an individual Reservist can be recalled to the bosom of Uncle Sam any time. For another, a guard division is composed of men from a single community who have worked together for some time; reservists are thrown together arbitrarily...
...different policies is that the Guard is primarily under state jurisdiction, the Reserves under direct Federal control. Some have suggested that the Defense Department's move is a step in bringing the Guards under Federal control, too. For if enlistments should drop below authorized strength in any single Guard unit, it would lose Federal recognition and would shortly be dissolved...
...Term was long and tedious, and a review is even more so. The whole thing was summed up back in November by the Chief Storekeeper of the local ROTC unit. The Storekeeper, who practices the mystic art of Persian rugmaking, claimed that his insights into the future were "too frightening to reveal...