Word: tau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years the 1,000 villagers of Tau Nghia off the South China Sea had been the helpless pawns of war: used and abused, taxed and conscripted, sheltered and then shelled by first one army and then another in the march and countermarch of Viet Nam's wars. Only last fall Saigon troops recaptured the hamlet after it had been in Viet Cong hands for six months. Tau Nghia's fortunes abruptly changed. First the Korean Tiger Division arrived and set up its headquarters in nearby Qui Nhon, providing a visible and powerful shield of security. And last January...
...Last March a small Viet Cong propaganda team came, and nearly every villager went to his assigned post. The Reds asked who the leaders were. No one would talk to them, and the baffled and frustrated V.C. organizers withdrew. So, too, has the pacification team, its mission accomplished, with Tau Nghia now a village thriving, alive and ready to kick hard at any Communist attempt to reinfiltrate...
...sounds of oncoming day filled Saigon's Nguyen Cu Trinh Street. Across from the eight-story Metropole Hotel, the third largest American en listed men's billet in the city, buses be gan lining up for the day's run to the beaches of Vung Tau. The sputter of three-wheeled cyclo-pousse taxis occasionally disturbed the gloomy quiet. An American MP, automatic shotgun cradled in the crook of his arm, and a white-uniformed Vietnamese national policeman neared the end of their guard duty outside the Metropole. Inside, 160 American servicemen lay sleeping...
...this day at least four fraternities - Sigma Chi, Phi Gamma Delta, Alpha Tau Omega and Phi Delta Theta - either have switched to constitutional euphemisms or have reached unwritten "gentlemen's agreements" that require members to be "socially acceptable" to all other members. A member pledged in California, for example, must not be likely to offend a member in Alabama. A fifth, Sigma Nu, still retains a "whites only" clause, but has permitted chapters, if pressured by college officials, to request special dispensation to admit Negroes. Sigma Chi requires national approval of every member by a screening committee supplied with...
...prizes are awarded automatically. The summa cum laude graduate who has the highest Phi Beta Kappa score receives the Sophia Freund Prize of $600 without a bit of extra effort. The Harvard Engineering School Chapter of Tau Beta Pi gives $25 to the most promising engineer. If a boy lives in Lowell House, develops a strong character, and maintains a sense of quiet decency, he may be rewarded by the Korean War Memorial Prize...