Word: tre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...James Swanson, 31, a native of Brownsville, Texas, is better known to the Vietnamese in his new home of Ben Tre as "Ong Tom" (Mr. Shrimp). He is determined to make himself a wealthy man by selling that tasty commodity...
Swanson saw Ben Tre first as an infantryman, nine months after the Tet offensive. The town had been partially destroyed, as an American major so memorably remarked, "in order to save it." Swanson returned for a second Viet Nam tour as an adviser in 1970 and dreamed up the idea of buying shrimp from Delta fishermen and reselling it in the lucrative Saigon market. After his discharge in July 1972, he put up $3,000 of his own money, talked $20,000 out of four Vietnamese partners, and went into business. Swanson expects a profit margin...
That situation has created what may well be NATO'S chief problem: how to maintain its strength and raison d'être in an age of détente. Inevitably, the quality of NATO's components has begun to waver more erratically than ever. The Italian army is moderately well trained, and could probably defend its own country against attack as long as the U.S. Sixth Fleet controls the Mediterranean. The French army, in contrast, may be the weakest of NATO's major links...
...much of the 20th century, many leading avant-garde composers have arranged their notes, rhythms and timbres according to predetermined schemes or series. Such major works as Arnold Schoenberg's Serenade and, more recently, Pierre Boulez's Le Marteau sans Maître have been serial compositions. Indeed no one has championed serialism more than has Boulez, the onetime enfant terrible of French music who is now the 47-year-old conductor of the New York Philharmonic and the BBC Symphony. Yet there was Boulez in Manhattan last week introducing his new 31-minute composition . . . explosante/fixe . . . and conceding...
...most ancient civilizations, jewelers made little use of precious stones-and when they did, they used them to embellish essentially sculptural designs. It was only in later times that gems themselves became jewelry's raison d'être: partly because craftsmen learned to cut them to reveal their undeniable beauty, partly because they were believed to possess and emanate magical powers. As late as the 15th century, emeralds were prescribed as cures for epilepsy, dysentery and failing eyes, as guards against evil spirits and sure protectors of chastity. By the 20th century, says English Jewelry Expert Peter Lyon...