Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blowing smoke in their usual frantic fashions, the Press, TV and, surprisingly, TIME also have unreservedly stated that the V.C. can "strike at will virtually anywhere in the country" [Feb. 9]. You saved yourself by not adding "any time." Granted the attacks in the South were well executed and successful-but they were also their best effort. The sapper units by anyone's estimate suffered horribly. These units are not, as was inferred by many, inexhaustible, nor are they mere country folk. These were the invaluable, irreplaceable, Hanoi-trained hard-core V.C., Directorate members themselves possibly, and the devout...
Vietnamese Skyraiders rent the air with ferocious whines as they dive-bombed sections of the city, notably the Chinese quarter of Cholon, which was honeycombed with Viet Cong. The planes sent refugees scattering in all directions and plumes of smoke shooting into sunny skies that mocked the city's agony. In six of Saigon's nine districts, 24-hour curfews were still in effect, meaning that those districts harbored at least small bands of guerrillas still operating as units. Electricity and telephone service was sporadic, most restaurants and shops remained closed, and Saigon...
...embassy in Saigon, they embarrassed and discomfited the U.S., still coping with the stinging humiliation of the Pueblo incident. They succeeded in demonstrating that, despite nearly three years of steady allied progress in the war, Communist commandos can still strike at will virtually anywhere in the country. Though the smoke must clear before any realistic assessment can be made, the slow process of pacification has probably suffered a major setback on two fronts. The promise of security in a hamlet may not seem so credible to a peasant who has learned that even Saigon and the U.S. embassy...
Today, two LPs later (on the ATCO label) the Bee Gees' brand of straight-forward sentimentality is winning a surprising response from listeners who are either too young or too bored to investigate the rolling, stoned Beatles' milieu. The older boys smoke cigarettes, try a little wine now and then, nothing more. With a bit of luck, it might become a trend...
...Originally we were planning to have a mass sell-in on Saturday," he said, "but that would be like the smoke-ins: the police would contrive not to be there while it's happening, and then afterwards, they'll go on arresting people...