Word: paratroops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McHarg's dreams were interrupted by World War II and his seven years' service as a British paratroop officer. Later, at Harvard, he earned three degrees in three years and picked up a case of tuberculosis. As a noted Scottish city planner, he was invited in 1954 by the University of Pennsylvania to found the first American department of landscape architecture and regional planning. He now teaches at Penn, is a partner in a planning firm and preaches what he practices all over...
...case at Nha Trang. As the elite of the Army, the Green Berets are highly skilled: the communications men can repair their own radios; the medics are surgeons without diplomas; the demolition men can destroy almost anything. Most are multilingual, and all have had extensive paratroop training...
...function. Instead, Fumiko, an older married sister, tries to hold the assorted family together: Ruby, a 13-year-old kid sister who becomes pregnant; Napoleon, her kid brother who dreams of becoming a Navy bombardier; Chuichi, a bitter boy who has been summarily dropped out of an American Army paratroop unit. Harold, a literate older brother, irreverently sabotages the ultra-patriotic camp newspaper by inventing a comic-strip character known as "the Nippon Pimpernel." Against an otherworldly background of Screenland magazines, Baby Ruth candy bars, and zoot suiters jitterbugging to the music of "the Jive Bombers, the true Mi-kados...
...decisive moves of the Normandy landings, Marshall notes, were all Eisenhower's. It was he who rejected the original conception of a knifelike, five-division strike into Europe and insisted instead on a broad, seven-division assault. Against the advice of his own deputy, he insisted on a paratroop landing behind enemy lines. Only at the end, the historian relates, did Churchill accept Ike's battle plan...
...include a Mexican gardener (Ringo Starr), a poet (Richard Burton), a guru (Marlon Brando), a Minuteman general (Walter Matthau), a surgeon (James Coburn), and Candy's uncle and father-both played by John Astin. The attacks take place on a pool table and in a moving truck, a paratroop plane, a grand piano, a men's room, a police car, an Oriental temple, a Mercedes-Benz and a hospital room. In all cases, sex is represented by a lot of thrashing around under things like sheets, feathers, snow and water. When Candy does appear unclothed, she is coyly...