Word: sackings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...successful Los Angeles realtor, David Gitelson, 26, lived in Viet Nam like the lowliest peasant. His home was a palm-frond shack in Ba The, a tiny Mekong Delta village 25 miles from the nearest U.S. settlement. Carrying all his worldly possessions in a wheat sack, Gitelson traveled the back canals of the Delta in sandals and faded Levi's, entertaining peasants with his concertina and instructing them in the modern farming methods he had picked up as an honor student at the University of California at Davis. The peasants called him My Ngheo-the poor American...
With his key lieutenants, the prosecutor claimed, Amer began mailing out anti-Nasser pamphlets and plotting his next move. Among several plans discussed was one wild scheme for jumping Nasser outside his home, popping him into a sack and driving off with him. The final plan, as described by the prosecutor, called for Amer and his men to seize command of the armed forces, arrest a number of top officials, including all cabinet members, and take control of the government. For the necessary payoffs, the government claims that Nasr gave $140,000 to Radwan...
...cook brings in a nourishing, if unexciting, breakfast of hot Bulgar wheat with concentrated milk and sugar, coffee and/or Keen (Nestle's), a lemon-lime powder we use to give the filtered water some taste. The Bulgar is like Wheatina or pablum and comes out of a big sack with an American crest on it with the USAID handshake symbol over that, followed by the words, "given by the people of the United States of America"--this is as close to welfare living as I hope to get. USAID gives great quantities of the stuff to refugees but hasn...
...thirteen Friday and Saturday nights you can see the all-time film classics in the Sack Theatres "Cinma Spectrum" series. Starting Feb. 16, the series will include Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard," Rossellini's "Open City," John Ford's "Grapes of Wrath," a set of Chaplin shorts, and Jean Renoir's "A Day in the Country." Get your tickets while they last...
...being a "colonialist," and demanded his expulsion. One paper ran a poem accusing him of every known vice and concluding: "You s.o.b., and your father and your mother and all your family and all your ancestors." More direct action was also threatened. Getting word that ARVN soldiers planned to sack the villa in which Newsweek is quartered, Martin had bars put on the windows...