Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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(6 of 10) mainland, and others who see it as the first stage of a phased withdrawal from Viet Nam. To Richard Nixon, proponents of enclave warfare were neither hawks nor doves but "turtles" who, he said last week, want to withdraw into their shells and "turn the Vietnamese people...
By contrast, ground and air combat in the South is being greatly intensified. Last week, while U.S. Army units fanned out in three big search-and-destroy operations, thousands of marines, intent on trapping a hard-core Viet Cong division, stormed a beach south of Quang Ngai in the biggest...
"Mr. President," said a reporter, "I understand that the women in the military services-WACS, WAVES, women Marines, etc.-are distressed because they are not being called upon to serve in Viet Nam. Is there any chance this may take place?"
By the end of the twelve-day Viet Nam tour, Actress Carroll Baker, 34, was feeling positively unfrocked. First she lost three suitcases with $7,000 worth of Lanvin gowns inside. After the show with Bob Hope at Chu Lai, the troops admired her $8,000 feathered and beaded Balmain...
*Marines: Again, no acute problem, but OCS could read Its applicant quota by summer.