Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beginnings of success can be seen. But the odd thing is that they are more visible outside the U.S. than in. Surely, without a growing conviction that the U.S. is winning in Viet Nam, Indonesia would never have felt secure enough to ignore Red China, patch up its quarrel with Malaysia, and move-as it was moving last week-toward a broad anti-Communist Asian union with Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. Something of the same confidence in what the U.S. is achieving in Viet Nam is plainly needed at home...
...Cover) SCENE ONE THE TIME: 1948. THE PLACE: A typical, two-room bohio, or farmhouse, on the outskirts of Laguna Verde, Dominican Republic. The name Laguna Verde, meaning Green Lagoon, is hyperbole. A ragged hamlet located about 15 miles from the Haitian border, it is the home of 500-odd campesinos who scratch out a living by growing maize and rice in sun-baked clay that scarcely tolerates thorny scrub and cactus. Inside the Marichal bohio (palm-bark walls, thatched roof, oddments of homemade furniture), a nine-year-old boy sprawls shirtless on the concrete floor, unraveling the thread from...
...Pilatus Porters, which can land in 250 feet or less, a Super Constellation with peculiar humps on its fuselage, and Huey helicopters. Most of the repairs and ground work are handled by Air America's 9,000 Nationalist Chinese and Philippine employees. The line's 400-odd pilots are nearly all recruited from the U.S. military services, draw an average $18,000 in base pay, plus bonuses for hazardous flying conditions, which can raise the annual total to $25,000 or more. The flyers wear plain airline-type grey uniforms, stay mostly to themselves in special Air America...
...crossbreeds intended to graft the convenience of helicopters to the greater speed and durability of conventional planes. Ling-Temco-Vought's tilt-wing XC-142A can fly straight up, backward at 35 m.p.h. or forward at 400 m.p.h. Lockheed, a relative newcomer to the field, is building an odd-looking hybrid called the AAFSS (for Advanced Aerial Fire Support System) with stubby wings, a pusher propeller and rotor blades to give the Army more close-support firepower than the AH-1G. Another version, still experimental, would take off like a helicopter, fold its rotors in midair...
...Representatives provides a convenient scoreboard for party strength, since all its members will come up for re-election. A year ago, when it was not clear that Vietnam would overshadow all other issues, many observers thought that the Democrats could escape with minimal losses. Many of the 70-odd freshman Democrats were extraordinarily attractive candidates who seemed able to run ahead of their party in their marginal districts...