Word: bivouacs
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Venerable Bivouac. For the Paris parley, Harriman and Vance will be accompanied by three principal aides: Philip Habib, Lebanese-descended Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs; William Jordan, former newsman and Viet Nam specialist for the National Security Council staff; and Lieut. General Andrew Goodpaster, Dwight Eisenhower's onetime military aide who was recently designated General Creighton Abrams' deputy in Viet Nam. The huge, 164-member U.S. Embassy in Paris will provide manpower and logistical support for the delegates, most of whom are likely to bivouac just across the street from the embassy at the venerable Hotel...
...enough that students are being drafted to fight in Vietnam, but it is even more deplorable that students who may be less than six months away from bivouac are not allowed to know whether or not they will be conscripted. Johnson has proven that he can keep his secret, even as hundreds of reporters and university officials try to wring it out of him. The time has come for a decision...
...title is somewhat misleading. This book, the work of more than a dozen experts, tells and shows how Romans of all classes actually lived. Starting with the town plan of Augustus, it proceeds to the kitchen, the bath, the school, the soldier's bivouac, and on to the theater, the doctor's office, what people wore, and the brutal pleasures of the amphitheater. A substantial, workmanlike job of real interest...
...mansion in fear of something they never name. Only the butler is left to serve the shambles of a meal. Midnight comes and goes, but no guest makes a move to leave. At 4 a.m., before the horrified host, the guests loosen their jackets, gowns and coiffures and abruptly bivouac on the floor. The next morning they discover that somehow they cannot leave the room. Days go by. Their amusement becomes annoyance, then terror. Like miners entombed in a cave-in, they first cry out, then slowly sink into apathy. An old man dies; a young couple commit suicide. Occasionally...
...arise. Unlike his World War II or Korean predecessor, he has known all his life that he must serve a military tour of duty, indeed has planned it along with college, marriage and choice of vocation. From the moment he arrives (usually aboard a comfortable troop ship), through his bivouac experience (under conditions less arduous than most Stateside weekend hunting camps), to combat itself (as intense as any in history, but brief), he is supported by the best that his country can offer-even though it is to fight a mean and dirty...