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...fortified village of Vinh Hoa was captured four times by U.S. troops last week without the loss of a single life. The Army, in fact, expects Vinh Hoa to save G.I. lives in combat, for the village, an exact replica of a typical Viet Cong settlement deep in the piney woods of eastern Georgia, is part of a new, expanded training program for Viet Nam-bound infantry troops...
...Cavalry Regiment, the outfit he commanded in Korea. "What we are doing there," he says, "is fighting an island campaign on a land mass." Last week Johnson boarded his JetStar for a one-day visit to the Army's biggest training center, Fort Jackson, in the piney uplands of South Carolina, where 19,655 men are being taught to fight...
There is plenty of business ahead for Wachovia. Next to the Far West, the Southeast has the nation's fastest-growing economy, carried forward on a fresh wave of industry that is sweeping aside plantations and piney woods. Agriculture, long predominant, now accounts for only 10% of the region's income, and Southern industry last year provided 75,000 new jobs, 25% of all the new factory jobs in the U.S. Personal income in the Southeast has climbed 25% in the past four years, last year rose 7.7% v. 6% for the entire...
...read in the New York Times this morning," President Kennedy told 7,000 listeners in the piney foothills of the Arkansas Ozarks last week, "that if Wilbur Mills requested it, I'd be glad to come down here and sing Down by the Old Mill Stream. I want to say I am delighted." Kennedy meant what he said. As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Arkansas Democrat Mills has powered three of the President's principal pieces of legislation through the House: the tax and trade bills of 1962 and the tax-cut bill now before...
Those that remain today seem to be concentrated in 65 acres of land set in the piney woods 3½ miles from Murfreesboro (pop. 1,100). The field first became prominent in 1906 when a young guide, John Wesley Huddleston, picked up a glittering pebble after a rainstorm. When a Little Rock jeweler pronounced it a genuine high-quality diamond, a rush of buggy-borne diggers, many of them women in ground-sweeping skirts, swarmed into Murfreesboro. Few of them found diamonds, and most of them soon went home. But ever since then, the diggings have been a steady tourist...