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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Past Terror. Only weeks before, one traveled the road, which runs six miles from Tanhiep to the village of Phumy, in terror if at all. Last November, a Viet Cong unit armed with mortars had occupied Phumy, evidently emboldened by the confusion that followed the coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem. To intimidate the people, the Reds smashed the marketplace, assassinated two village councilmen and a health worker, used the crucifix of a church for target practice...
...government has so far kept the Reds from returning by keeping an outsize force, composed of one infantry battalion, a Ranger unit, and a company of engineers, pinned down in the area. A few weeks ago, the troops beat off two Viet Cong companies that attacked a hamlet west of Phumy and burned down several houses, leaving 400 peasants homeless. Government officials concede that the Communist guerrillas could overrun Phumy again should they mount enough strength. All the government can vow-and what it does vow-is to make any such onslaught extremely expensive for the Reds, and ultimately...
Making Congo-Belgian unit...
...their lives in them-and a rather enjoyable third at that-men and women are surprisingly stodgy about their beds. Their resistance to change in sleeping styles has long been the despair of the bed business; despite much smart and sexy advertising, there has been little growth in unit sales or dollar vol ume for the past decade. But there was rejoicing last week at the National Association of Bedding Manufacturers' convention in Chicago. A bed trend is under way-toward sleeping...
...become a spiritual vagrant-one of that vocal tribe of U.S. intelligentsia whose identifying marks are alienation and a search for identity. Cheever never had any doubt as to his identity. As an economic unit, he was a zero-apparently just a lost boy hanging around Boston. But his brother Fred, who was as convinced as John himself that writing was John's business in life, subsidized him with the midget sums necessary to keep him alive...