Word: beers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cubby-Hole Enlisted Men's club in Long Binh, 20 miles north of Saigon, about 300 G.I.s were having their spill of beer and good cheer. Suddenly a spotlight pinned an opening door, and out wafted a striking blonde. For a second, the soldiers were dead silent. Then stomping, cheering and pounding on tables, they scrambled over each other to get a better look...
...Beer & Slots. Most people in the U.S. have never heard of Jan Brinker, but in South Viet Nam she is almost as famous as Doris Day. Jan, and perhaps a dozen other little-known entertainers, have been touring G.I. bases for a couple of years, and in their own way have become headliners. The USO sponsors tours by bigger names, and Bob Hope visits the troops regularly; still, the demand for entertainment is so insatiable that it has created a flourishing year-round vaudeville circuit...
...projected a small, noninflationary budget deficit for fiscal 1967, which began in July. As it turned out, the cost of Viet Nam this year was $10 billion greater than the President publicly estimated, and, says Chicago Economist John Langum, "Viet Nam was to the booming economy like too much beer to a weak bladder." Instead of raising taxes to finance the war and frustrate inflation, Johnson took the politically easy way out, left it up to Martin's Federal Reserve Board, and through it U.S. bankers, to crimp the nation's credit. The irony is that Johnson...
...rescue came her room mates, Mimi Feldt and Vivian Franco. Their solution: a party with a slogan: "Send Sobo to Spain!" By the hundreds, their dittoed orange invitations fluttered out over the District of Columbia: "The pleasure of your company is requested at a benefit party. Free beer and setups provided, plus band. Your contribution (of $1) will further the cause of international relations...
...some cadets to dub the place, in jest, "Hilton on the Hudson." In the new dorms, spring mattresses have replaced stuffed cotton bedding, and bureaus have pushed out steel lockers. Morning coffee is served between classes, and some instructors even invite cadets to their quarters for evening pizza and beer. Even plebes can date and dance on the post every fall weekend. Seniors can sip cocktails in the officers' club, a privilege that the Army rationalizes as "the social training of the cadets...