Word: van
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...best measure of the promise of the new pacification effort is that the Viet Cong is worried-and reacting. In the village of Binh Nghia, the team from Vung Tau got off to a fast start thanks largely to the support of Police Chief Nguyen Van Lam, 35. After the villagers, many with blood ties to Viet Cong guerrillas, held a meeting in which they enthusiastically burned a Viet Cong and a North Viet Nam flag and pledged allegiance to the Saigon government, the Viet Cong machine-gunned Police Chief Lam as he sat at tea. In Binh Dinh province...
Tennis is a curiosity among competitive sports: the players outnumber the spectators. An estimated 8,500,000 Americans play tennis, but only a handful ever attend top amateur or professional tournaments. The reason, according to James Van Alen, 63, president of the tennis Hall of Fame, is the sport's 85-year-old scoring system, which belabors spectators with archaic terminology ("love," "deuce," "advantage"), places no time limit on the duration of a match, and encourages a brand of play-the wham-slam "big game"-that often makes the match a bore to watch. Van Alen's answer...
...Hope You're Satisfied." At Forest Hills, early-round sets were 21-point affairs, and the two-point-margin rule was eliminated, causing Van Alen to complain: "They're not playing VASSS. It's not my system at all." He was nowhere nearly as upset as Pancho Gonzales was when Gonzales discovered that he was required to serve from the 3-ft. line-thereby taking the steam out of his serve, the hardest in the game. Gonzales blew his first-round match to Chilean Luis Ayala, 21-18, then blew his top. He challenged heckling spectators...
...study of Twain published in 1920 and revised in 1933, Van Wyck Brooks argued that Twain fell short of greatness because he masked his reformer's spirit by writing humorous books-in short, by making a joke of a crusade. Twelve years later, Harvard Critic Bernard De Voto challenged that theory by showing that Twain's very humor was a crusader's weapon. With it, said De Voto, Twain exposed the hypocrisy of a century in which aggrandizement all too often passed under the name of progress. The distinctive virtue of Justin Kaplan's book...
...entire cabin area on eleven quickly detachable pallets that can be moved over small rails and rollers in the plane's floor. To convert the 96-passenger plane for cargo service, workmen roll the pallets out of the cargo hatch on to a van, fold up the hat racks, then roll in 20 tons of cargo on eight pallets from another van. Total time: 30 minutes. In all, eleven U.S. and foreign lines have ordered 93 of the $5.1 million planes. United, which has ordered 30, will start the first QC service in August, hauling passengers seven hours...