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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inside the Barrier. Back at An Khe (pop. 12,000), the division has created a home away from home. Last week business was booming in An Khe Plaza, the sanitary "Sin City" that houses bars and brothels under strict Army medical supervision (TIME, May 6). Highway 19, the east-west road that was once controlled by Communist ambushes, is now open all the way from Qui Nhon. In General Norton's tidy mess on "the Hill," a high-rise hummock that houses division headquarters, officers show up at dinner in gleaming boots and bright, gold-and-black scarves...
...luxury. When the Cav arrived, a local entrepreneur hauled in ice from Pleiku every day, most of it melting before he got there but the remainder providing a cool profit. Then one day he failed to show up, and troopers found his creaky, decrepit truck leaking ice water on Highway 19. The truck and its owner were riddled with Viet Cong bullets, and a note near the body read: "Do not take the dirty money of the Americans." Now an ice plant is being built to ease the heat...
Poor Richard's, Ogunquit, Me. In a 1780 tavern on the King's Highway, now a restaurant specializing in Yankee pot roast cooked in wine, baked lobster in wine sauce, breasts of capon and prime ribs of beef...
Stonehenge, Highway 7 outside Ridgefield, Conn. Swiss Chef Albert Stockli buys his fresh vegetables from such local farmers as Thomas E. Dewey and Lowell Thomas. Elegant Continental dining in a rambling house set by a swan-filled pond...
Chalet Suzanne Resort Inn, Highway 27 near Lake Wales, Fla. Bertha Hinshaw is 83, but she still runs the show. Her soups are so good that 600 gourmet shops in the U.S. and Europe carry them in cans...