Word: pol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...raids destroyed an estimated 75% to 80% of the two complexes. At least 50% of North Viet Nam's remaining POL (for petroleum, oil, lubricants) supplies went up in smoke, leaving the country with reserves adequate for only eight weeks-if they are not bombed again. The loss will make incalculably more difficult the flow of troops and materiel for the Communists' ever-more-desperate war in South Viet Nam. Though U.S. planners had feared that a dozen or more aircraft might be shot down, only one-an F-105 fighter-bomber hit over Hanoi-was lost...
Even before the POL raids, said the Secretary, the U.S. in its 16 months of sustained air offensive against the North had accomplished three major objectives: 1) shoring up South Vietnamese morale, 2) "substantially" increasing the cost of infiltration for the Communists, forcing them to divert an estimated 200,000 workers to road-repair gangs, and 3) demonstrating to the aggressors that "as long as they continued their attempts to subvert and destroy the political institutions of the South, they would pay a high price not only in the South but in the North...
...your wife and tell her that you got two trucks last week?" The frustration ended with the Hanoi-Haiphong strikes. General Meyers said that his men "were on Cloud Nine." Pointed out one Air Force commander: "You don't have to worry about trucks if you get the POL...
...other acquaintances, Marion is kooky like a fox. A shrewd art spotter (and haggler), she has furnished their $150,000, twelve-room Park Avenue coop with a couple of Venards, a Man Ray sculpture, a Guardi, a Pol Bury kinetic, a Yaacov Agam (her newest and proudest acquisition), and some superlative samples of pop and op.*In the library of the Javitses' Park Avenue place there also hangs a striking, feline oil of Marion by Boris Chaliapin. The mouth is sensual and slightly parted, the eyes tigerish and burning bright. But why, the startled subject asked on seeing the finished...
...clash of contrasting styles, curious continuities emerge. Kinetic art, one of the latest movements, represented by Sculptors Jean Tinguely and Pol Bury, is foreshadowed by Gino Severini's The Armored Train (opposite page), an example of World War I futurism that abstracts the warring motion of an ironclad railway car into shock waves, lacking only POW! ZIP! BAM! in cartoon balloons to become pop art. And Severini died just this year at the age of 83. Optical art is another trend of the '60s. Yet a flat pattern of particolored isosceles triangles called Iridescent Interpenetration...