Word: rocketings
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...Bowls. Or Sammy Snead had beaten Jack Nicklaus in successive play-offs for the Masters. Last week, at 37, for the second year in a row, Ken Rosewall won the world championship of professional tennis. Once again, he did it by defeating the most formidable opponent possible, Rod ("The Rocket") Laver...
...year-old laborer whose wife and daughter were there for treatment of shrapnel wounds from mines planted by the Communists on the shoulders of the roads. "The V.C. didn't want anyone to leave, because once the people go the B-52s come," said Thien. "But a V.C. rocket destroyed my house, so I had no choice. They shot at us so we don't go, but we ran for two days until we hit the mines." For the first time in the current Communist offensive, sizable numbers of Americans, too, are in the path of the assault...
...Saigon, other enemy forces edged closer to the capital itself. Fighting broke out near Cu Chi, an ARVN headquarters astride the "Saigon corridor" between Cambodia and the capital, and enemy troops briefly occupied the nearby village of Trung Lap, only 20 miles from Saigon. At week's end, rocket teams were reported to have slipped into positions north and south of the tense capital...
...shattered by a 30,000-man North Vietnamese force that included the 320th Division, a veteran outfit that had fought at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. One by one, the ARVN bases fell to the North Vietnamese; the losses included a string of seven artillery positions on aptly named Rocket Ridge, which looks down on Kontum 25 miles away. None of the terror-stricken ARVN units put up much of a struggle, but few faded as ignobly as the 1,200-man garrison at Tan Canh, the forward headquarters of the troubled 22nd. As one of the U.S. advisers...
Quiet prevailed in the central highlands, where another major battle for a provincial capital, Kontum, is expected to erupt at any time. Some officials yesterday predicted possible rocket attacks on Saigon itself...