Word: dau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...operation a month ago, with elements of the U.S. 25th Division and 196th Light Infantry. Now more 1st Division units and the 173rd Airborne Brigade were brought up. Major General William E. DePuy, commander of the 1st Division, took charge of Attleboro and set up an operational headquarters at Dau Tieng. The once-sleepy village bordering a large rubber plantation soon resembled a World War II beachhead as lumbering C-1235 transports and darting helicopters brought in hundreds of tons of supplies from 175-mm. artillery shells to plastic bottles of mosquito repellent. DePuy soon concluded that Attleboro had caught...
...plaster caricature of an imaginary middle-class know-nothing called Ratapoil. Next highest was $59,591 for a life-size plas ter bust executed around 1855 of Dau mier himself, complete down to the wrinkles and warts. Bidding for the 14 drawings was lively enough to bring prices up to $17,346 for a single one. Buyers were mostly private European collectors, who seem to have recaptured some of the enthusiasm of Balzac. To tal take: a staggering...
...bomb blasts looking for "an opportunity to show their fighting skills." During their first day, they killed 180 Reds. Then the North Vietnamese pulled back to lick their wounds, much to the paratroopers' disgust. There was fighting in plenty, however, around the huge, abandoned Michelin rubber plantation near Dau Tieng, some 40 miles northwest of Saigon. When two Viet Cong battalions hit all four sides of a government encampment on Date Palm Hill, the South Vietnamese defenders hurled them back in vicious hand-to-hand combat...
There is no disagreement among American military men that the infusion of U.S. combat troops has taken up enough slack to give the plucky but war-weary South Vietnamese the pause they needed after a tough summer. At Dau Tieng the government regulars stood and fought it out for four hours without losing a single piece of equipment to the Reds. At Thach Tru they stood up and charged against heavy odds. There has been a noticeable decrease in the South Vietnamese desertion rate since the Americans began arriving in quantity. Says General William C. Westmoreland: "The presence...
Modest Cuixart, 39, cousin of Antoni Tàpies, paints in a richly detailed impasto that he calls "the new baroque." Once a member of Dau al Set, he left to dabble in textile designs, returned to share the crown of Catalan craftsmanship with Tàpies. Cuixart says that "a renewal is taking place among those young artists who are distinguished by their absolute independence...