Word: layings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like the other sections of the magazine, Essay will treat topics in the news, but (except for the cover story) in greater detail and length. Essay will take a problem under current discussion and lay it bare. The new department will not treat a story or an issue when it is making the biggest headlines. That will be done in the appropriate section. Essay will come in later, when the problem is still far from settled but when second thoughts and greater reflection can be of particular benefit...
...ride back to Saigon from a remote staging area, Faas found himself in the midst of a major operation by South Vietnamese troops against a Viet Cong stronghold in Binh Duong province. He noticed that the troops were unusually edgy and soon learned why. Helicopters were scheduled to lay down a cloud of "nausea gas" just before the attack and, while the gas was nonlethal, the South Vietnamese were leery...
Forbes was also in expert on aerial photography. He led a botanical and geological expedition to Labrador in 1931, in explore the interior and the coastline. Flying his own seaplane, he mapped the entire area, and his work was used to lay out a northern air route to Europe during World War II. The U.S. government employed him to take serial photographs of the first hydrogen bomb test on Bekiui Atoll...
...praise for the regime, for which my pencil lay in wait, did not appear. There was only a soft mention of how the Chinese have become happier and more well-fed since the Revolution. I waited for the army to march proudly through Peking's "Red-Square," but they never came. The movie was thwarting my every move into complacency, and the photography and color began to penetrate...
...where he rented 30-room hotel suites and sometimes dropped more than $100,000 a week at the casinos. His name was repeatedly linked with belly dancers and beauty queens. The Arab-Israeli war of 1948 ended in a crushing Egyptian defeat, and army officers grumbled that the fault lay with Farouk's corrupt courtiers who, they claimed, had got huge gains by supplying the army with shells that wouldn't fire and grenades that went off as soon as the pin was removed...