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...residents of Palm Springs, California's summer-temperature winter resort...
...Palm Springs' planners expect to complete the $7,700,000 system by next May. hope to draw an additional 500,000 visitors annually soon thereafter...
...target area was a fertile quilt of rice fields and palm jungle near the market village of Tan Phu, only ten miles from Saigon. Communist Viet Cong guerrillas not only control the countryside, but can enter the town itself with impunity. They collect both rice and money taxes from the peasants and, in their hidden weapons caches, keep musical instruments and songbooks for use in the evening indoctrination sessions held for the local citizenry...
...troops fanned out in a long half-moon and moved toward the canals that bordered the palm jungle. AD6 attack bombers circled the paddies and tried to flush the Viet Cong into the open with rockets and napalm jelly. Suddenly a spotter plane picked out a group of fleeing Viet Cong guerrillas and dropped a smoke grenade. Fire from rifles and automatic weapons killed five of the Viet Cong, but two dozen more escaped into the trees. During the ear-shattering, three-minute exchange of fire, a farmer at the edge of the trees placidly kept plowing his field...
After Christmas, the Guests usually spend two or three months in Palm Beach. This is Winston's legal residence; his family arrived there soon after World War 1. Though they have given much of their land holdings to the city for parks and the like, the family still owns sizable quantities of Florida real estate, which they bought when Worth Avenue was pure boondocks. But Ceezee and Winston live simply in Palm Beach in a four-room apartment over a converted garage, occasionally entertaining small groups of friends in restaurants. Between times, when the mood seizes them, they take...