Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tyranny, bloodshed and hardship are no newcomers to Sadovy. Born in Czechoslovakia, he tied his home in 1939 at 14 to avoid German forced-labor camps, later joined a Polish unit of the British Eighth Army. He fought up Italy's Adriatic coast as a company photographer, found that the only way to get good pictures was to stay ahead of the infantry...
...planes and many of the Navy's newest weapons would be impossible." Miniaturized computers, radar sets, fire-control mechanisms and radios are the heart of every U.S. jet bomber and fighter. Today's war planes are controlled by little black boxes so compact that to service a unit, Air Force mechanics simply remove the box, install...
...little-known Chief Storekeeper at the College's NROTC unit may have discovered in his travels what philosophers and scientists have been searching for through the ages--the key to the Universe. The Chief, Charles R. Ridd, is reputedly the only man in the Western Hemisphere to master the ancient art of Persian rugmaking, and he claims to have penetrated the highest mysteries of life through the practice of this...
However, the present arrangement is such a compact student-faculty unit that any increase in enrollment, however small it might be, would be very expensive. Because of this, Dean Greep explained that when the School did expand it would do so "all at once." He guessed that the enrollment would increase along the order of magnitude of "two times its present enrollment...
...Hungarian crisis will be discussed tonight by a revolutionary leader who escaped from Hungary 13 days ago. In the fight against the Russians, he commanded a unit of 5,000 armed rebels...