Word: van
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...circuit to New York via Manila. More lines were the answer, but how to get them? Clark came down from his base in Manila, and the three men and their colleagues went to work on the problem. Striker found some electronics equipment lying unused in the Saigon cable office. Van Dieu agreed to provide six new channels to Manila. Clark agreed to establish radio channels to the Philippines and link them to the Transpacific cable...
Deadly Draw. Then, in a bold gamble, Army Brigadier General Cao Van Vien, commander of South Viet Nam's III Corps, employed the rarest of weapons in the Saigon arsenal: imagination. Guessing that the Viet Cong had already overrun the protected jungle clearings where relief helicopters could be expected to land, Vien sent 40 choppers loaded with troops swooping suddenly onto a soccer field adjacent to the defenders' compound. Before the Viet Cong could react, the bulk of the 52nd Ranger Battalion was on the ground and fighting. By the following morning, the Communist attackers had had enough...
...evening, before the Communists begin shooting, the voices of men, women and children in Longthu village, just 1,000 yards away, drift clearly over the paddyfields to Tanlong. This is the toughest part of the day for Corporal Bui Van Tu, at 40 the oldest member of the platoon. Submachine-Gunner Tu's wife and two children live in Longthu, and half of his $34-a-month pay goes to keep them in rice. Tu has not had any leave since the three days off he got in 1963, sees his family only once every five weeks...
...only be the first of many new finds. The Czechoslovakian Communist government declared all of the country's 4,200 castles to be state property, and almost none have yet had their collections examined. Says Neumann eagerly: "I myself know where there are two completely authentic Van Dycks. They've simply been hanging there all these years with nobody paying any attention to them." Even in a people's republic, some good can still come from nobility...
...when Phyllis McGinley, a pleasant matron of 60 who could pass for 45 and does not try to, a woman who just misses being pretty and does not care, presents herself at the White House, she will find herself on a program that includes only one other poet -Mark Van Doren. Asked to recite one of her own poems, she chose In Praise of Diversity, originally written for a Columbia commencement, which ends...