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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...send two paratroop divisions into battle in a sector where a senior adviser predicted 90% casualties. He eventually decided that the paratroops had to be committed to combat, and ''for years thereafter," he said, "I felt that only once in a lifetime could a problem of that sort weigh as heavily on a man's mind and heart...
...suspiciously prisonlike on the outside, the barracks-like apartment blocks have mess halls and community toilets but neither heat nor running water in the apartments themselves. But by rigid regimentation and the help of technicians from Eastern Europe, Communist North Korea has made impressive economic progress of a sort. Ninety-five percent of the peasants are herded into Soviet-style communes. Factory workers toil 12 to 14 hours a day for wages that average $21 a month in plants that often operate round the clock...
...bridges, and scenes long enough to allow complicated scene shifts. When he is not pounding the piano, Loewe fingers a piece of jade it once belonged to an Oriental potentate who said his beloved had always kept it as close as possible to her which serves Fritz as a sort of mineral Miltown...
...then, Harvard, you know, is a very expensive school and it is difficult for people who aren't so wealthy to come here, I've asked several students what sort of work their fathers do and everywhere I hear 'my father is a lawyer,' mine is a research chemist,' 'mine is vice-president of such and such a company'; it is very hard to find someone whose father is a worker...
...opponent, Ward, seemingly was endowed with the same sort of explosive with the same sort of explosive nature, for the gubernatorial race was the only contest in Massachusetts that was really marked by bitterness and good old-fashioned mud-slinging. Volpe's position as a prosperous contractor left him open to attack from the Ward side, and he replied in kind...