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...twelve-day-long battle began when a five-man U.S. forward-observer team went up Hill 861 for a look; only one man came back alive. Two Marine platoons that followed were stopped at the base of the hill by heavy fire. With that, Marine Commander Lieut. General Lewis Walt pulled out all the stops, ordered two battalions into action. The Army's big 105-mm. and 155-mm. guns swung round to zero in on the enemy hilltops. Marine jets began flying sortie after sortie with 1,000-lb. and 2,000-lb. bombs and napalm, eventually dropped...
Harvard scored 22 of the last 28 points to squeak out an 80-74 victory over the Yale track team Tuesday. In the last event, Walt Campbell's fourth throw of the javelin moved him from fourth to first place and clinched the victory for the Crimson...
...cocktail party): Did you know that in the same year Sigmund Freud wrote The Psychology of Everyday Life-1901-the Trans-Siberian Railway reached Port Arthur, W. Normann discovered the process for hardening liquid fats, the British Academy was founded, Walt Disney was born, and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec died...
...Corps, where the Communists' supply lines and infiltration routes are shortest. For that reason, the U.S. has airlifted nearly a full Army division into the area, while the South Vietnamese have rushed in three elite battalions to augment the thinly stretched forces on the spot-Lieut. General Lewis Walt's 75,000 U.S. Marines, two understrength South Vietnamese army divisions and three Korean battalions...
...influence. Its citizens are chiefly Annamese; they once ruled Viet Nam from Hue, were among the earliest supporters of the Viet Minh against the French and make a fetish of xenophobia. The Imperial City of Hué is Viet Nam's capital of discontent. Despite the efforts of Walt's 73,000 Marines, much of I Corps remains pro-Viet Cong, and in recent months the situation has markedly deteriorated...