Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decided after three recent weeks in Viet Nam that "I won't cover Khe Sanh, and I refuse to go back to Hué." Summed up Jaffe, 38, who saw action as a merchant seaman in World War II and with the Marines in Korea: "The longer you stay here, the more inevitable it is that you're going to be hurt, maimed or killed...
...planning and expenses are being borne by a dozen different local and state institutions (even Buffalo's bantam-sized 7,800-student state college got in the act by inviting Merce Cunningham and his dance company to perform two new works during a four-week stay). The festival committee is chaired by the Albright-Knox's director, Gordon Smith, 61, and the residual deficit will doubtless be met by the gallery's longtime Medici, former seven-goal polo player and investment banker Seymour ("Shorty") Knox, 69, who paid $100,000 to underwrite the first festival, an S.R.O...
...Americans, two British, one French-have been captured by the Italians in a Tunisian Turkish bath. They are incarcerated in a luxurious villa, where the commandant is a former hotel manager and the guards behave like well-trained batmen. The setup is anything but escape-proof, but there they stay, having a lovely war, unable to agree on a plan because all have identical rank. Private Frigg, escape artist extraordinary, is summoned to spring the goldbricking generals by getting himself captured, and is given a spurious spot promotion that will enable him to give them orders...
Author Tarsis is no more interested in the guests than Lipyan is. To the manager, the healthy ones are suckers who madly and drunkenly throw away their savings. The really sick cannot be cured in so short a stay...
Saltonstall & Co. sailed for England on a British steamer "The Olympic." They were greeted with amusement by the natives. "We had brought our own water supply," remembers Saltonstall, "as we heard that it took ten days to get acclimated to the change, and we only planned to stay four...