Word: hellings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Subsequent adventures have taken Greenway from hunts near 19,565-ft.-high Kilimanjaro to 520-ft.-high Con Thien, which, as our cover story notes means roughly "place of angels," but is "more akin to hell." How does he like his new assignment that calls for so much time on the muddy, bloody "roof" of South Viet...
...Vietnamese, the name means approximately "place of angels." To the 1,200 U.S. Marines guarding it and to Americans watching their ordeal, Con Thien has come to mean something more akin to hell. Since Sept. 1, the outpost, less than two miles from the southern edge of the six-mile-wide Demilitarized Zone that separates the two Viet Nams, has been under relentless bombardment from Communist guns. In one barrage last week, the Communists sent 903 artillery, mortar, rocket and recoilless-rifle shells whistling into the perimeter around Con Thien's three barren, red clay hills-probably the greatest...
...waver in his support of the President's Viet Nam policy was Everett Dirksen. The scramble among his fellow Republicans to dissociate themselves from Johnson's war policy prompted him to shake his head. "They're all getting iffy. I don't know what the hell's wrong with them," he complained last week. "The fellows in uniform over there aren't going to appreciate it one damn...
Some Tories were recklessly outspoken in their opposition to independence. "Damn the rebels!" cried one Massachusetts Tory. "I wish they were all scalped; damn the Congress to hell." Like a latter-day emissary to Hanoi, a Pennsylvania Tory named Samuel Shoemaker made his way to Windsor Castle and emerged after an interview to proclaim the kind of admiration for George III that occasional U.S. visitors have felt for Ho Chi Minh: "I wished some of my violent countrymen could have such an opportunity. They would be convinced that George III has not one grain of tyranny in his composition...
...after the 40 days' fast in the desert-the Bible mentions only three by name. By common agreement of angelologists, these three-Michael, Gabriel and Raphael-rank at the very top of God's celestial hierarchy. Michael, whose heavenly hosts tumbled Satan and his evil legions into hell, is the holder of the keys to heaven. Gabriel presides over paradise and, according to none other than Mohammed, was the angel who at God's command dictated the Koran. Raphael, who escorted Tobias on his journey to Media, has a host of spiritual assignments: chief of the order...