Word: paid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supporter of M-day. "Now I feel guilty for going over there," he says. "I feel ashamed." Solemn and softspoken, Graham traces his transformation to his experiences with South Vietnamese soldiers. For a time, he was in charge of ensuring that each of some 400 of them was properly paid; before that, the payroll had been given directly to a Vietnamese lieutenant and some of it seemed to go astray. He says Vietnamese officers often upbraided him in front of the troops he was advising. Some were so hostile that he became "more afraid of the South Vietnamese than...
...Vientiane. There is none of the neon nightmare that Americans have brought to Bangkok, and the town does not creak under the weight of the U.S. military as does Saigon. One sees few Americans, and none in uniforms. In a few bars one may find the freewheeling, CIA-paid Air America pilots, the Lord Jims of Laos. But the main accent is French. The old ochre-colored colonial buildings with their big windows and high ceilings set the architectural style. Citron pressé outsells Coca-Cola, and hamburgers hardly exist. The pace is as slow-moving as the ceiling fans...
...iron man who makes it all work is Marshall (6 ft. 5 in., 250 Ibs.), a ten-year veteran who has run up an incredible streak of 159 consecutive games. "What Jim Marshall gets paid for," says Hollway, "is to rush the passer, and that is what he does best. He has a quality of balance as great as any man I've ever seen...
...flicking through the florid intricacies of the music with the phenomenal speed and accuracy that have made Sills one of the most spectacular singers in the world. When the last high E-flat had died away and Lucia had toppled in death, the benefit audience, many of whom had paid $100 for their seats, shouted and clapped for seven minutes while Beverly Sills paced before the curtain, perspiring with a 103° temperature and happily dodging bouquets of roses...
...losses were due partly to huge damages paid on a rare combination of hurricanes, air crashes, U.S. race riots and oilfield fires. A deeper reason was that in those years, premium rates of much of the insurance business -with the exception of long-term life, which Lloyd's does not carry -were unrealistic. The rates failed to keep pace with soaring repair costs and the proliferation of bigger jet aircraft and giant oil tankers. "Inflation and technological revolutions all caught up with the underwriters," says Lloyd's Chairman Henry S. Mance...