Word: greens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans have managed to befoul their natural resources on a scale unparalleled in history. Rivers, lakes and bays have become noxious sewers. The air over the nation's cities is infested with fumes and filth. Open green spaces are devoured by urban sprawl. Yet attempts to halt the despoliation have been, in most cases, limited and local. Last week the battle against pollution moved a long distance toward achieving national urgency...
...faint to be heard by the crowd in Sproul Plaza below. Five hundred University of California students and other young people milled about, some lolling on the grass, some gibing at and singing to the National Guardsmen who surrounded them. Gradually, the grinding sound enveloped the plaza. A bulbous green helicopter swooped in over the treetops, belching white puffs of a potent military tear gas called CS. The powder settled indiscriminately on demonstrators and bystanders, drifting into classrooms and the campus hospital. The crowd in Sproul Plaza tried to flee, but gas-masked Guardsmen blocked the exits. The ubiquitous dust...
...corner of South Viet Nam's A Shau Valley, since 1966 a major infiltration route for Communist forces from the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos to the coastal cities of northern I Corps. It is a mountain much like any other in that part of the Highlands, green, triple-canopied and spiked with thick stands of bamboo. On military maps it is listed as Hill 937, the number representing its height in meters. Last week it acquired another name: Hamburger Hill. It was a grisly but all too appropriate description, for the battle in and around...
...hard to separate yourself from it." Some genuinely heroic acts, on the other hand, are forced simply by the nature of the war. The Rev. Jerry Autry, 28, a Baptist chaplain from Princeton, S.C., once landed near a Viet Cong village with a platoon of green soldiers commanded by an equally green lieutenant. When they froze, Autry rallied them and led the charge. Autry carries a weapon only because he has to. Like many chaplains who go on patrols or fly on combat sorties with airborne troops, he has discovered that his unarmed presence can make the men jittery...
What came next was lines a block long. Curious (Yellow) picked up enough long green to gross $86,704 in its first week. What also came next was bomb threats and scalpers who sold $2.50 tickets for $10. The least predictable assault came from the Black Mothers for Liberty, a militant group who objected to the film's reference to Martin Luther King. Mayor James Tate capped the controversy by knocking the audience. "Many of the people who are standing in line," he fumed, "are degenerates." Actually, some are Pinkerton men scanning the ID cards of 17-year-olds...