Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...during the collapse of the Chiang Kai-shek regime which he covered for LIFE. "The same gnawing fear that gripped Shanghai has taken hold in Saigon," Rowan cabled last week. "You saw the same scenes: inflation requiring shopping bags full of paper money, wailing police sirens, and the endless debate among correspondents about whether to stay or leave...
...word dependents was defined more and more loosely as the airlift progressed?partly because, as one American businessman put it, the Vietnamese extended family is "like a chain letter," stretching to include a virtually endless stream of cousins, nephews, grandmothers and in-laws. One American departed from Tan Son Nhut with 39 "dependents." A U.S. businessman recognized a couple of prostitutes he had seen at the Palace Hotel bar in Saigon and discovered that they were leaving under a new "no-marriage clause"?which meant, in effect, that in the crisis, a departing American can take his girl friend...
Foreigners and frantic Saigonese could see their salvation in the skies as giant U.S. Air Force C-130 and C-141 cargo planes and sleek commercial jets flew endless circles over the city. Among those asking for assistance at the U.S. embassy was none other than the nephew and namesake of Pham Van Dong, the Premier of North Viet Nam. Dong was a university professor in the city. "Don't you trust your uncle? " he was asked. "No," he replied. A group of Indian haberdashers who had made a killing in the lucrative money-changing business made plans to escape...
Lord, how the plumes streamed, how the sun flamed and flashed from the endless procession of webby wheels...
Bellow. His life settled into a long, pixilated idyl: winters of bohemian sloth on Singer Island, Fla., sleepy summers at his mother's house in upstate New York, side trips to Europe and Nassau, and an endless supply of booze and accommodating young women. Still, he insists, "my life-style of lugging my own soiled sweat shirts and skivvies to the laundromat and lunching on cheeseburgers and draft beer had altered not a whit...