Word: patches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Easing the Burden. Before Johnson spoke, rumors had swirled around the capital that he would announce the dis patch of roughly 30,000 more U.S. troops to Viet Nam-in addition to the 525,000 already authorized. Instead, he announced that only 13,500 more men would be sent in the next five months...
...shot through the back of the head, the bullet coming ou through the mouth. The faces would have been difficult to recognize, but the day before 27 women from the village walked out three miles carrying mattocks to dig for their missing husbands and sons, having heard about this patch of disturbed earth near the roadside. Ostara told me that the enemy had come through on their way to Hué. They had taken 27 men. Some were leaders and some were younger, strong enough to be porters or even ancillary soldiers...
...solution, in fact, seems to be little more than an emergency patch of blue, though it is at least that. Last week he gave out the figures for February, and they seem to bear out the point. The number of robberies had bobbed back up from 163 to 207. But the rate did not go up in the crackdown areas; all the increase was in previously low-crime areas. Headley thinks that means that the crackdown has driven some criminals into new territory. The obvious conclusion: intensified police work can make a dent in crime but it is no substitute...
...film whose sole purpose is to be beautiful, Elvira Madigan fails miserably. Beauty must be a unified thing. Elvira Madigan is a patch-work film--pieced together in a sloppy fashion, giving us no single theme and no unified execution...
...Jane, forget that silly dish. Come and sit with me and tell me that all my fears are untrue." But neither utters a word. "Contact can hurt," concludes Narrator Ralph Bellamy, "but not as much as non-contact." ∙BOOKS. A paperback with an unlikely title, The Cotton Patch Version of Paul's Epistles, has just been published by Association Press, a Y.M.C.A. affiliate. Written by Clarence L. Jordan, a Southern Baptist minister who helped found Koinonia Farm, an integrated colony of whites and Negroes in Georgia, the book transposes the writings of St. Paul into a modern...