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...Load per man for a two-day mission: Claymore mine and 240 rounds of ammo; four canteens of water and three meals of dried meat with rice; compass, flare gun, signal mirror, orange-and-cerise panel to signal for help; morphine for wounds, pep pills for drowsiness, codeine to kill coughs that might betray a position, antidysentery pills; tape to ward off leeches by closing off wrists and ankles of uniforms...
...performance of the Negro G.I. under fire reaffirms the success-and diversity-of the American experiment. Often inchoate and inconsistent, instinctively self-serving yet naturally altruistic, the Negro fighting man is both savage in combat and gentle in his regard for the Vietnamese. He can clean out a bunker load of Viet Cong with a knife and two hand grenades, or offer smokes to a captured V.C. and then squat beside him trying to communicate in bastard Vietnamese. He may fight to prove his manhood-perhaps as a corrective to the matriarchal dominance of the Negro ghetto back home...
...entirely sympathetic with the view that a 1/5 time teaching load should be equitably defined and administered, and we are just as anxious as you that this be done. The only question is that of the bases or criteria to be used...
Although the paper, signed jointly by Dean Ford and John P. Elder, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, leaves the way open for adjustments in the measurements of a fifth-time teaching load, it rules out increases in teaching fellows' pay "for the present or the immediate future...
Harvard came back in the bottom of the second to load the bases with no outs and no hits Lord and Joe O'Donnell walked, and Pete Karegeannes, trying to sacrifice, got on a B.U. error. Hall popped out, but second-baseman Dick Manchester drove in Lord on a suicide squeeze bunt down the third-base line...