Word: units
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...growth didn't all come on the part of the students. You could hardly teach a unit on courage in literature with Millicent Brown in your class without learning something about courage yourself...
...Elbow Room. The U.S. unit that found the going toughest was the 2nd Brigade of the 25th Infantry Division, newly arrived from Hawaii. Assigned to the Cu Chi plain 20 miles northwest of Saigon, the brigade found itself encamped atop a veritable anthill of Viet Cong tunnels, in choking grey dust sometimes two feet deep. Enemy snipers and 60-and 81-mm. mortar crews penned the 4,000 men of the 2nd inside a perimeter only a mile long and 4,000 ft. wide-normally base-camp elbow room for only an 800-man battalion. Passage...
Last week, after five years of planning and preparation, Australia took the plunge into decimals. The government tried to make the transition as painless as possible, preceded it with a long education campaign. To replace the Australian pound, it picked as the new major unit the dollar, which will be valued at half a pound and will be circulated in denominations of $1, $2, $10 and $20. In turn, there will be 100 pennies to the dollar, coined in 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 pieces. As conversion day-or C-day-drew near, the government launched a radio...
...Tigers smashed pool records in both relays, taking the medley relay in 3:40.7 and the freestyle relay in 3:14.3. The latter performance broke the mark set by Yale's 1963 unit that included several 1964 Olympians. The visitors from Old Nassau also pulled and pushed several Crimson swimmers to their best performances of the season...
Chaffee is the best cross-country skier who has ever attended Harvard and with sufficient practice could become Olympic material. If Jim Sise improves his technique and Bear Barnes matures, this unit will be one of the strongest in the league...