Word: tans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...within the seven-mile defense belt long claimed by the police to be impenetrable by the enemy. In one street battle last week, a police patrol traded fire with a Viet Cong squad for 20 minutes before the guerrillas melted into side streets. At the suburban police station of Tan Quy Dong, 30 Viet Cong assaulted the chief and three recruits on duty, who escaped, wounded, only by jumping out of windows into the nearby river. The attackers then made off with the station's small armory...
...done as quickly as possible. The amount of the fees involved is a closely kept secret. Says the combine's overall boss, Morrison-Knud-sen Vice President Lyman D. Wilbur, who runs the operation from a windowless, green-painted office at No. 2 Duy-Tan Street in Saigon: "We think it's too little and the Government thinks it's too much...
...Force KC-135 transport circled Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airport for 30 minutes to enable a flight of F-100 Supersabres to roar off for a sortie. By the time the KC-135 was down and hatch open, the sudden October monsoon was whipping a veritable wall of water in its face. There on the strip stood a U.S. brigadier general and dozens of pretty Vietnamese girls in sodden turquoise and white ao dais. "If they care enough about us to stand out there in the rain," said the first passenger, "the least we can do is stand...
CALIFORNIA GIRLS (Capitol). The Beach Boys make a point that is hard to dispute: a tan enhances the charm of a bikini...
...important travelers passed through Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport one morning last week. Perhaps not entirely by coincidence, they did not meet. Flying in from the U.S. aboard a bright blue and white presidential Boeing 707 was the new U.S. ambassador to South Viet Nam, Henry Cabot Lodge, back after 14 months for his second tour of duty. Bareheaded and smiling, the Brahmin promised his "best efforts" toward effecting a "true revolution which will make possible a new and better life for the Vietnamese people...