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FESTIVAL OF GAS. Its blue and green color scheme adds to the cool beauty of the glass-walled room, from whence the diner can look out over a flower-sprinkled moat. For an appetizer, the soft clam pan roast is hard to beat; it is best followed by tasty mignons of tenderloin flared in bourbon or stuffed broiled lobster and wilted dandelion greens with bacon. Fine fare at Fair prices, which means quite high indeed...
...Mondrian met Bart Van der Leek, whose work (see opposite page), though sometimes representational, dealt with pure colors in flat planes. They tried to remove the traditional moat between the picture and the viewer. Mondrian's late paintings can be seen as the visible imprint of an invisible pattern surrounding the viewer. Even the walls of his stark studio were hung with movable panels that he rearranged to suit his desire, in effect making the studio a spatial work of art. Van der Leek used white in his work not as background but as space that separated his flecks...
Then suddenly and, as far as anyone can tell, on their own initiative, 10,000 villagers-all except the sick, the aged and the very young children-turned out for 27 straight days and dug a ten-mile ditch around the elongated village. The moat begins at the riverbank, marches through rice fields and coconut groves, curls around the spurs of two foothills, across a marshy neck of the sea, and returns again to the riverbank. With their hefty hoes, the villagers dug 10 ft. down and 20 ft. wide. The earth, lifted up in round bamboo baskets, became...
...mysterious and mystical about the great wall at Hoaimy. The spectacle of 10,000 villagers building it voluntarily and without payment, the phenomenon of their will to resist so suddenly and spectacularly revealed, gives both sides much to think about. While it may not be possible to wall and moat every village in South Viet Nam, the spirit of Hoaimy matters. In this may lie a partial answer to how to compete with the Viet Cong-perhaps even how to defeat them...
...grim tale of Viet Cong tactics. By night, clad in black, 200 Communist guerrillas stealthily forded the moat surrounding the sleeping outpost of the government Self-Defense Corps, snipped the barbed wire and charged. Inside, Red agents, who had infiltrated the garrison disguised as recruits, machine-gunned loyal troops in their bunks, set off secretly placed charges that toppled the fort's three watchtowers. By dawn, 28 government men lay dead, 36 wounded, and the Viet Cong had made off with virtually every weapon on the base. Looking about the ruins, a Vietnamese survivor gestured at pools of coagulating...