Word: impactions
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...back home 24 hours later for a post-Thanksgiving reunion with his family, where Mrs. Guinn fainted. Johnny later said bitterly: "I don't feel we have any business being over there, and most of the fellows in my outfit feel the same way." The most painful impact of death, of course, is on the survivors, and Survivor John Guinn-who has already died once in Viet Nam-will probably not have to go back. After a 30-day leave he will be reassigned to Fort Bragg, N.C. Meanwhile, Quinn Tichenor was taken to Louisville for reburial...
...hand. 'Get to someone who needs help,' he said. Then he collapsed in my arms with the child." A 15-month-old baby lived through the crash, as did Chris Haile, 5, and his little sister Eileen, 2, whose parents were killed; 15 adults survived the impact, but four later died...
...would commit large numbers of troops to stand guard at the border. Since McNamara is now leaving, there is some doubt that the controversial barrier will ever go into operation. In any case, whatever action is taken in the next few months will provide some criteria for judging the impact of McNamara's transfer...
...effect of Hershey's edict is not limited to students actually inducted, nor even to students who obstruct army recruiters. Draft policy, as Gen. Hershey likes so frequently to point out, has a great deterrent impact on all men of draft age. Selective Service has made much of the 2-S deferment as an inducement to higher education. Presumably Gen. Hershey now sees his recent statement in a similar vein, as a means of discouraging student protest against the military...
...Peyrefitte scandalized postwar France in 1945 with Les Amitiés Particulières, the story of a homosexual love affair between two boys in a Roman Catholic boarding school. As filmed by French Director Jean Delannoy, This Special Friendship turns out to be both poignant and disturbing. Its impact depends not on lubricity-the schoolboy crush at the center of the story is idealistic and unconsummated. It is based on Delannoy's deft projection of the human agony behind the cry of St. Paul: "For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which...