Word: delta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kind of war over there. They keep pounding it into your head that in Vietnam there is no front. You can just as likely be killed by a sniper when you step off the plane as you can out in the woods outside the city or in the Delta region. One of the friends I graduated with from high school was a medic and four days after he went into Vietnam he was missing in action. I've known as much as three hours after a guy stepped off the plane he was killed by a sniper...
...border and so easy to get. The Airborne paratroopers, especially the ones who have been to Vietnam and are coming back for their medic training, are all potheads because in Vietnam the stuff grows wild and free and you can sit around your camp fire in the Mekong Delta and they say you can just reach out and put up a handful of hemp leaves and throw them on the fire. They also tell me there's a terrific black market on narcotics for the troops in Vietnam...
...week's end Joe Clark winged off to the West Coast with his peripatetic subcommittee for hearings in San Francisco and Los Angeles-bringing to nine the number of areas visited. To the Senators, who began their probe in Mississippi last month and reported "widespread hunger in the Delta counties that can only be described as shocking," California's ghettoes were almost pleasant by comparison...
Chunky Highlights. In all this Disneyland atmosphere, the handsomest work was undoubtedly the most stationary: the many varieties of outsized, technologically sophisticated minimal sculpture, much of it stationed outdoors (see color pages). David Von Schlegell's 42-ft.-long jet delta wings gleamed in the sunlight like anchors for interplanetary fleets. Robert Grosvenor's 24-ft.-long yellow Still No Title lanced downward from a portico of the museum building like a bolt of sunlight, ending a breath-taking eight inches from the pavement. John McCracken's brilliant blue column reflected shades upon shades of the California...
After four months of subsonic scrutiny, the White House last week decided to go ahead with the construction of a supersonic transport. The President authorized Seattle's Boeing Co. to build two prototypes of the delta-winged. 338-ton 1,800-m.p.h. SST, which will fly 300 m.p.h. faster than the Russian and joint British-French prototypes already being built, and will carry 300 passengers to its competitors' 130-odd. The U.S. aircraft, to cost $40 million each, will be able to fly from New York City to Paris in two hours and 20 minutes, v. seven hours...