Word: necks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Family Reunion. He was something of a character himself. To his children, N.C. seemed "a combination of Paul Bunyan and Santa Claus"; to keep that illusion alive, he would risk his neck each Christmas Eve to stomp noisily atop the icy roof of their house. To his neighbors near Chadds Ford, Pa. -where N.C. had settled in 1903 to study under another great illustrator, Howard Pyle-and in Maine, where he subsequently summered, Wyeth was a big-hearted man, equally at home with farmers and fishermen...
...Neck-High. But the fact is that the South Vietnamese do not possess the men or equipment or mobility to conduct sustained operations. Thus for some time they have barely been able to hold their own. Since the rice-rich Delta must be cleaned out if the war is to be won, what is clearly required is American manpower and gunpower. As a result, U.S. military commanders have been giving increasing attention to the need for U.S. troops in what has been the exclusive war of the Delta's IV Corps commander, Lieut. General Dang Van Quang...
...will probably be from the Army, though the Marines have long chafed to get into the Delta action. In any case, the campaign will be no picnic. A steam-hot, table-flat expanse of mangrove swamps and paddy-fields often standing in water up to a man's neck, the Delta is rife with an estimated 80,000 veteran Viet Cong guerrillas...
Mixed Motives. For the surgeons, no less than for Hoi Pham, that reaction was a near miracle. For two months the child had stoically borne a pain in her neck that gradually forced her head toward her shoulder at a grotesque 30° angle. With paralysis from strangulation of her spinal column, she could no longer walk, could barely move her arms. A corpsman took Hoi Pham to Project Viet Nam civilian doctors, who have volunteered to care for civilians (TIME, May 20). With no neurosurgeon among them, they referred her to the Navy. Dr. Pitlyk found that Hoi Pham...
...Dylan, 25, was luckier-but not by much. He was buzzing along on his Triumph 500 near Woodstock, N.Y., when the rear wheel froze, flipping him off and onto the pavement. Dylan was rushed to a doctor and will spend at least two months in bed, recuperating from a neck fracture, a concussion (he wasn't wearing a helmet), and severe face and back cuts...