Word: oxcart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that were infiltrated down the Ho Chi Minh trail from North Viet Nam in the same period. Down the trail must also come nearly all the ammunition to supply the Czech and Chinese weapons of the 30,000 North Vietnamese regulars now in the South. Whether by truck, oxcart, bicycles carrying up to 500 Ibs., elephant or pack, it is an increasingly perilous journey, taking three to four months at times, under daily U.S. bombing and strafing. Perhaps as much as 50% of the materiel intended for what Hanoi calls "the big front line" (as distinguished from "the big rear...
...years the Vietnamese peasant has been ordered about, brutalized or wooed by soldiers-French, Japanese, Communist Viet Minh. Now, he is once more caught in the middle, between the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas and Diem's army. Squatting in the shade of his oxcart, a farmer north of Saigon said wearily: "Many times we are forced by the Viet Cong to spend the night digging ditches across the road. In the morning we are forced by the army to fill in the holes. The next night, we must dig them again...
...French-born Father Stephen Badin, first Catholic priest ordained in the U.S., bought several hundred acres around his Indiana log cabin, deeded it to the nearest bishop for a school. In 1842 the C.S.C. in France sent Father Edward Sorin, 28, to build the school. His endowment: an oxcart, seven religious helpers and $541.12½. Bewitched by a fresh November snow, Sorin had a vision of purity that made him call the place Notre Dame (Our Lady...
...European painting is studied and tired, missing the freshness of spring." says Belgian Industrialist Philippe Dotremont. "American painting bursts forth from the ground like flowers, disengaged from tradition and the past. If a man moves by plane rather than oxcart, why must he prefer Rubens to Pollock...
Economist Carroll comes of a pioneering California family: one branch sailed around the Horn, the other crossed the continent by oxcart. At 25, he was both an assistant professor and an assistant dean at Harvard's business school. In World War II the Navy put him in charge of recruiting all officer candidates. At 32, he took on the deanship of Syracuse University's sagging business school. He remade the school, went on to do the same job at the University of North Carolina. In 1948 he was called on to help organize the $3 billion Ford Foundation...