Word: van
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LIEUT. PETER K. VAN WINKLE 69th Infantry N.Y.A.N.G. Manhattan...
...everywhere the capital blossomed in red-and-yellow South Vietnamese flags. U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Korean Premier Chung Il-Kwon, Thai Deputy Premier Praphas Charusathien and the emissaries of some 20 other foreign governments journeyed to Viet Nam to witness this week's inauguration of President Nguyen Van Thieu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky. To celebrate the occasion, all Saigon zestfully prepared to take a brief holiday from war in a 48-hour round of ceremony and state receptions, fireworks displays and a giant National Day military parade...
...making some zestful preparations of their own as they did last year, when terrorists mortared the National Day reviewing stand, Saigon police rounded up all known Communists and raided their usual haunts. The capital's 15,000 police have been newly armed with carbines, and Police Chief Nguyen Van Luan offered an $8,400 reward for information leading to the capture of potential terrorists. There will be plenty of cells for them: to celebrate the inauguration, some 6,000 civilian and military prisoners will be amnestied and released from jail...
Mariner 5's findings, released last week, agree generally with data sent back by Russia's Venus 4 and its landing capsule. Neither spacecraft found evidence of Van Allen-like radiation belts around Venus, both reported hydrogen coronas and found that carbon dioxide was the principal constituent of the Venusian atmosphere. Mariner's finding that the atmosphere was "at least" 7 to 8 times as dense as the earth's does not contradict more precise Russian data showing densities 15 to 22 times as great...
...hand to host the guests, including Art Institute Director Charles Cunningham, whose museum's president backed up his good wishes with a $50,000 donation, was the Contemporary's director, Netherlands-born Jan van der Marck, 38, former director of Minneapolis' Walker Art Center. While studying museum organization and finances on a two-year Rockefeller Foundation grant, Van der Marck realized that the early success of institutions like Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was based on their exhibitions long before they had a chance to build up their permanent collections. Van der Marck intends...