Word: mountaineers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Cong waited until a thick layer of rain cloud covered the mountain crests around Kannack. Insured against U.S. jet attacks, they struck, nearly 1,000 strong, at the camp's north, south and east flanks. Dozens of assault squads in black shorts and green kerchiefs of parachute silk slipped up to the barbed-wire perimeter carrying Bangalore torpedoes. There followed bangs galore...
...mountain men-a mixture of Hrey, Bahnar, Rhade and Muong tribals -dug in and held. As they turned their mortars on their own overrun positions, their women carted ammunition into the trenches and fed belts into the clatter ing machine guns. It was a grim sort of togetherness, born of desperation. "I think the montagnards fought well because most had their families with them," said an American adviser. "These people are ruthless when it comes to life or death. One guy was in a bunker, completely cut off, and the V.C. called on him to surrender. He told them...
...their local principals or superintendents because despite signs of roughly normal intelligence they were either failing or were at least a grade behind in reading. In fact, 80 of the boys were 31 grades behind. They come from such varied backgrounds as affluent suburbs, private schools, impoverished rural or mountain areas, and Negro slum areas in such cities as Charlotte and Durham (20% of the class is Negro...
...bulk of the mining are in the mood to expand. Marcona Mining Co. plans to triple the capacity of its $20 million iron-ore pelletizing plant on Peru's southern coast; Southern Peru Copper Corp. is investing $16 million for improvements; and the king of the mountain, Cerro de Pasco Corp., has just earmarked $18 million to expand its $270 million mining complex. Next month General Motors will open a $5,000,000 assembly plant outside Lima, the first of 15 automakers, including Chrysler and Ford, that intend to settle in Peru...
Asbell's exaggerated faith in machines leads him to make a molehill out of a mountain. He rejoices in the obvious virtues of automation--the effects it is easy to be ecstatic over. Nobody doubts, for instance, that automation will prove a blessing to people who now have to earn their living by sweeping floors or working on assembly lines...