Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drive's organizers,* said of the young radicals: "We've waited almost a year to see them come up with a program. They haven't, and now we have." To Dr. Kenneth Clark, the Negro psychologist, the decision to wield green power rather than shout black power represents "part of our growing up." Prosperous Negroes, of course, have for many years contributed quietly to the N.A.A.C.P., the Urban League and similar groups. "What makes this new move important," says Clark, "is that it takes the wealthy Negro away from the $500 and his name on the wall...
Snipers & Mantraps. The Thais were initially skeptical that the Green Berets would be of much use fighting by proxy-as instructors. But the first Thai companies that the U.S. graduated scored such instant successes against insurgents that Bangkok did an about-face: it has asked the Special Forces to quadruple the number of Thais in training until all 150 companies in the Thai army have run the U.S. course. The Thai soldiers themselves were quickly won over by the toughness and expertise of the Green Berets, three-fourths of whom, like their commander, learned their professionalism the hard...
...gate, snipers and mantraps of sharpened pungi stakes greet them. Targets suddenly pop up. As the Thais raise their rifles, the earth nearby explodes from hidden mines-a sequence that has caused many Thai soldiers initially to drop their rifles in fright. But there is more to the Green Beret village than shooting. The Thais learn the guerrilla's subtleties: an escape tunnel beneath the village huts, a cache of arms buried under the little shrine of a phi spirit house, which all but Thai Communists might consider sacrosanct. The Thais value their tough training all the more because...
...comes the green truck of the Boston Globe to drop stacks of Sunday papers at the kiosk news stand. Heave away my hearty, bail by bail, comics outermost...
...they do not aspire to the College they do not atempt to understand or revere it. The physicality of Harvard Square is to their taste, the flood of objects, people, shoes in store windows, neon signs half put out and grimy behind the light, candy boxes wrapped in shiny green and sculptured, candied loaves piled on display. Through all and over all the too sweet smell of oil of coconut...