Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...communities in the world can match the sun-drenched affluence that Rhodesia's hardy settlers have achieved for themselves. Lions still command the distant escarpments, and elephants, baboons and rhinos forage in the valleys of rivers bulging with hippos. But on rolling high veld, brushed with elephant grass and flowering jacaranda trees, the whites have carved out a tidy empire of modern tobacco farms and cattle ranches that has brought modest prosperity to the land. Taxes are low and so are prices; and, for whites, wages are high enough to permit all but the most menial workers their...
...Nhon and An Khe. "Fantastic! Marvelous!" he would exclaim, using his two favorite words as he moved from base installation to command post to hill lookout sketching all the while. At one point a helicopter almost landed on half a dozen of his drawings spread out on the grass. "Please, please!" Koerner shouted at the whirling chopper Save my drawings...
...Viet Cong-infested Central Highlands a giant helipad for the First Team's covey of copters. The division's assistant commander, Brigadier General John M. Wright, took machete in hand to show his men how to do it, chopping away the scrub without disturbing the grass, so as to avoid dust storms as the choppers rotated in and out. Today the First Team's garrison at An Khe is the largest concentration of fighting men and machinery in Southeast Asia since the French left Indo-China in 1954-and predictably its well-turfed...
...long shot at 8 to 1. True, he had won the Preakness, the American Derby, five other stakes, and $518,205. But he was used to running counterclockwise, on flat dirt tracks. Like most French races, the Arc is run clockwise, and Longchamp's 1½-mile grass track is anything but flat: in the middle, it is 38 ft. higher than at the start and finish. Jockey Willie Shoemaker still insisted that Tom Rolfe had a chance. "This colt is hickory," said The Shoe...
Water Whipping Sir: Your perfectly TIMEd water cover [Oct. 1] should lead to grass-roots recognition of our nation's staggering water problem. A thorough whipping is needed, and whip us you did. Your editor punched hard-the message came through raw and unembellished-but even more starkly effective was Robert Vickrey's cover...