Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What the Vietnamese need most is at least 20,000 more trained administrators to run each district after it has been won by soldiers. Without them, says a U.S. officer, "we can take ground, but we can't hold...
...without ever hanging it. For, unlike most axed network heroes, he has a lifetime contract. Under a life sentence for killing a fellow inmate at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in 1962, Valachi now resides in a fourth-floor, 25-ft. by 50-ft. chamber known as "the penthouse," a District of Columbia jail cell that boasts a well-stocked refrigerator, television, and-as a chastening reminder of the 32 murders in which the Justice Department estimates he took part-an electric hot plate. The Government feels obliged to protect Valachi because in ratting on the syndicate before the Senate...
...while away the hours, the District's $3,000-a-month star boarder reads movie magazines, performs isometric exercises, chain-smokes Camels while he chain-watches TV, and whips up his favorite recipes on the hot plate. He also spends considerable time fussing with his greying hair, which was dyed henna for his Senate scenes and is now walnut brown. "I put a big dent in Cosa Nostra," he says, "and I'm enjoying...
...fact is that the New Haven, like any other company that is losing money, cannot afford to stay in business. In 1962, six months after three trustees had been charged by the U.S. District Court with determining whether the railroad could be reorganized and maintained under private management, they reported that the source of the New Haven's trouble was its passenger deficit. Every railroad in the country loses money on its passenger operation, but the cause of the New Haven's special problem is its extremely high ratio of passenger service to freight service; one of the smaller roads...
...Lutheran officials are outraged by the plan. They could not get Holy Cross parishioners to oust Apman as their pastor, but have persuaded them to delay approval of the merger until March. Recently the Rev. S. C. Siefkes, president of the A.L.C.'s North Pacific District, visited Holy Cross to warn parishioners of the doctrinal dangers involved in the plan-chiefly the Episcopal belief in the apostolic succession of bishops...