Word: doan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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National Commitment. Dow President Herbert D. Doan insists that napalm is of no economic importance to the company, and that principle rather than money is involved in its manufacture. "As long as the U.S. is involved in Viet Nam," he says, "we believe in fulfilling our responsibility to this national commitment of a democratic society. Napalm is highly effective in certain specific combat situations encountered in Viet Nam. General Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has described the necessity for the use of this material and the great precautions taken to avoid injury to civilians. He has also...
That was not enough to knock the Reds out of their camouflaged bunkers, so in came Captain Doan Kim Long, 27, and his battalion to mount a classical infantry charge. Long, who wears French wrap-around sunglasses, a lavender scarf and a khaki beret, deployed his men in a shallow V with himself at the point. With the battalion bugle blaring, the Vietnamese raced across 75 yds. of open ground, straight through their pinned-down comrades, hurling grenades into the Viet Cong bunkers and gunning down the Reds when they tried to escape. Long's men lost only three...
...marriage had endured nearly three years, which was approaching the average time that Woolworth Heiress Barbara Mutton, 54, had spent with her six previous husbands. So naturally, when Babs left Tangiers a few weeks ago without No. 7, Laotian Prince Raymond Doan Vinh, 50, gossips assumed that the five-and-dime princess was making a change again. "Untrue," the prince said blandly during a stopover in Manhattan on the way to rejoin his wife at her $3,000,000 walled estate near Cuernavaca, Mexico. "All that gossip started in Tangiers, a small town where they have nothing else...
...campground for the new cadres, looks like an unsupervised fraternity house with its clutter of cots and guitars. The new district chief, Mai Nhu Manh, a graduate of the National Institute of Administration, boasts only a corner bed with a mosquito net. Says a young colleague, Law Graduate Doan Thanh Liem: "The only thing that is important to us is a change in mentality, a sense of community." Only one American, a 24-year-old named Charles Sweet, is advising the youths, and he was not allowed into the district for three months...
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