Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marines had ever contested. It combined the horror of a Guadalcanal jungle with the exhausting steepness of the slopes at Chapultepec. Added to that were fusillades of bullets as ferocious as at Tarawa and showers of shrapnel that turned the forest into a tropical Belleau Wood. But "the Rock-pile," as Viet Nam's latest big battleground has come to be called, is weirdly unique. There, just south of the inaccurately named Demilitarized Zone, a task force of six Marine battalions has been battling two entire divisions of North Vietnamese regulars whose apparent aim is to invade Quang...
...ought to be more fun than watching the lopsided score pile...
Some of Johnson's critics charged that he should have acted much sooner; many did not like the action that he finally took. But almost everyone felt a sense of relief that the President, who of late has tended to let decisions pile up a bit, had at least acted. Johnson moved after Chairman Wilbur Mills of the House Ways and Means Committee changed his mind about opposing any new tax measures this year and agreed to give vigorous support to the Administration bill. That bill cagily calls for inflation-dampening measures whose burden would fall primarily on business...
...resolution condemning the riot as "irresponsible" and "shameful." Julian Bond, the Atlanta Negro who was elected to the Georgia legislature last winter but later denied his seat for condoning draft card-burning as an antiwar gesture, resigned as S.N.C.C. publicity director. Other Atlanta Negroes set fire to a pile of S.N.C.C. literature and demanded that the local S.N.C.C. chapter move out of their neighborhood...
...presents targets in gratifying profusion. Cannibals and Christians is mostly warmed-over Mailer: a scatter of pseudo poems (he calls them "short hairs"), essays, dialectic, sermonizing, book reviews, literary criticism and political reportage. The principal new material is some italicized mortar troweled in to support the notion that this pile of used bricks rose and took form from a blue print, which of course...