Word: surroundding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SQUEEZE LAOS in its more populous western provinces. Communist forces mounted an offensive on the Plain of Jars more than two weeks ago, began to surround Luangprabang, the royal capital, and maintained pressure on Sam Thong and Long Cheng, headquarters of the CIA-backed army of Meo tribesmen...
Abrams works in the huge headquarters building of MACV (Military Assistance Command, Viet Nam), next to Saigon's airport. He is at work at 7:30 a.m. seven days a week. In his map-lined office he dips regularly into one of the cigar humidors that, surround him. He confers three or four times a week with U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, three times with General Cao Van Vien, the South Vietnamese chief of staff, and even more often with his intelligence officer. Whenever he can, he choppers to the field and once a month flies to Bangkok to visit...
...Dean of the Law School, Bok has had experience as a fund-raiser, academic lobbyist, figurehead and personable administrator. His role, however, has never called for him to surround himself with a large administrative staff, and this is where he will have his first impact as President-elect...
...field is real only in the imaginations of the 15 men-one wearing a peace button-who surround it. In fact, it is a 5-by-8-ft. table covered with carefully scaled fields and forests, and populated by immaculately realistic toy soldiers. The only thing actually flowing is ale. The men are gathered, as is their monthly custom, in a private room over the Ordnance Arms, a pub in London's Southwark. The Society of Ancients is staging the twelfth battle of its miniaturized Wars of the Roses. But did the Battle of Pleshey actually occur? Not bloody...
...institutional meat. Barrels of dough. Bread for the circus. And, over on Elvis' right, Brobdingnagian close-ups of the office staff, the maids, bellboys, waitresses, showgirls and hawkers, pr men. Tourists. But no, not tourists. Not in Vegas. And, the center of it all, Elvis, jes keeps on singin'. Surround him, cameras roll up and down through the labyrinthic entrails of the International. Elvis, dwarfed by eight foot high shanks of beef, by linen and glassware and advertising. By MGM celluloid. Elvis. That...