Word: units
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staff job. I had studied the [Vice President's] responsibilities for President Eisenhower and recommended there wasn't anything [more that he could give Nixon], that if he did, he gave up [some of] his own power, and he would be creating a competitive unit within the Government. So I was fascinated when [Gerald Ford] asked me to take on the CIA investigation. I said, "Well, I am interested in life. I can do big things or little things. It makes no difference, if it involves people and problems...
...into Holland, the movie employed an army all by itself. Besides the stars, Director Richard Attenborough recruited 100 young actors in London and trained them to behave and, supposedly, even think, like crack British troops. For the dramatic scenes of the airborne assault, hundreds of paratroopers from a Belgian unit and from Britain's 16th Paratroop Brigade jumped out of antique DC-3 Dakotas...
First for the Swedes. The team that played Harvard some two and a half weeks ago in Watson Rink--just about the time everyone else was heading out to Logan--was by no means Sweden's number one unit. Had it been, the Crimson would not have triumphed by a 10-5 margin, a win which did nothing for its record but wonders...
Slipping Puttees. Even after the German invasion, Chonkin's idyl continues. His unit has shipped out and forgotten him. But a district policeman suspects that Chonkin may be a Nazi spy-perhaps even a White Russian general about to lead a counterrevolution. When a detail is sent to arrest him, Chonkin refuses to abandon his post. Uproarious chaos, slapstick and barnyard antics ensue...
When the court came to grips with a host of civil rights cases. Bell emerged as a moderate. He wrote the opinion outlawing Georgia's county unit system, which vastly overrepresented rural areas. Last March, he resigned from the court and joined a law firm where Charles Kirbo, Carter's senior adviser, is a partner...