Word: lac
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Pajamaed Defenders. To help the Army achieve that aim, the 3rd Brigade's 419-man teaching cadre, 31 of whom are Viet Nam veterans, spent six weeks building Vinh Hoa, which they named for the Rev. Nguyen Lac Hoa, a Catholic soldier-priest who began fighting the Viet Cong in 1959. The instructors' wives wove grass rugs and made clay cooking pots, while children helped to fashion the village's huts and whittled vicious punji stakes of bamboo. For added authenticity, chickens were let loose to roam the village...
Wisconsin's freshman Democratic Representative John A. Race, 50, made it picture-window clear that he has no conflict-of-interest problems. His statement of assets: 1961 Chevrolet, $1,000; home in Fond du Lac, $7,200 (minus a $6,000 mortgage); cash, $500. In fact, since he quit his $125-a-week machinist's job to campaign in July, he, his wife and daughter "have been eating bean soup and peanut-butter sandwiches"; and he borrowed $1,750 from his campaign fund, and $1,500 from the bank to tide him over until he could start collecting...
Geneva is the only city in the world to have gained fame and prosperity from successive failures. This placid, tidy town lying on the shores of Lac Léman and beneath Mont Blanc, the tallest of the Alps, has been the scene of some of humanity's most trying moments. It is a place where great ideas turn to dust in the archives, and where nations exhausted by war come to end their fighting...
...LAC BOUMANS Laverton, Australia...
...from the flood: the book reveals that the four cords of wood that Dr. Lewis asked his son to chop on Feb. 23, 1903, were really 4¼ cords, and that on a Canadian trip in 1924 Lewis passed through Goose Lake, Snake Lake, Trout Lake, Clam Lake and Lac la Ronge. Research is the opium of the biographers; when the fit is on them, any fact, no matter how small, must be included just because it is available...