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...Chicken Vendor. The French were just then opening up their first officer class for the newly created Vietnamese army. Thieu enlisted and graduated at 26 with a second lieutenant's commission and orders to take command of an infantry platoon in the Delta. It was Viet Minh country, and the platoon got a hostile reception. For two weeks, the peasants would not even sell it any food. Then one day the Viet Minh mortared Thieu's little camp. After the bombardment, an old man suddenly appeared with eggs and chickens to sell. "I knew why he had come...
...remain behind. Song-and-dance teams ride the circuit of V.C.-held territory to help in the task, crooning the latest political messages. The enemy has not overlooked the immemorial value of women in espionage. In smaller towns, nearly every market has a sharp-eyed little-old-lady vendor who is not what she seems. In Saigon the seamstresses in tailor shops often provide convenient message drops for the Viet Cong...
...more stacks of oranges, more imported Italian groceries. Then, just when the banquet seems ended, pass through the shadow of the aerial highway and the world is bananas, watermelons and parsnips. Friday and Saturday the outdoor pushcart market comes to Dock Square, and the North End goes shopping. The vendors set up their pushcarts on Blackstone Street and enclose themselves in a square of crates. Pyramids of tomatoes and oranges. Baskets of brocholi. "A-spare-a-grass. Four pounds for 95 cents. A-spare-a-grass here," yells a short, bouncy vendor with a meaty face and big squashy hands...
...plainclothes city officials check the quality of the food. The watch is careful, the punishment effective. Once, a market kibitzer recalls, a careless, stoop-shouldered vendor left a pushcart of tomatoes exposed to a fall frost. Although he knew that the centers of the vegetables had frozen, he was unwilling to lose a week-end take that might have amounted to $200. But, the next morning, when he tried to bluff his way past the officials, one kick by a robust inspector sent the frozen tomatoes pounding down the street like red rubber balls...
Only the Pink Pretzel vendor seemed truly happy. For half an hour, pretzels sold like hotcakes...