Word: visee
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...night before, an overwhelming force of 16 Communist divisions had tightened its vise around Saigon, moving to cut Route 15, the city's only escape to the sea. Sunday night there was heavy fighting at several points around the capital, including a murderous artillery assault against the airbase at Bien Hoa. Poised on the outskirts of the city, the Communist troops faced virtually no resistance. Most of the top ARVN military leaders had already fled or were making plans to do so; the regular troops were leaderless, demoralized and overpowered...
...Congress decides whether or not so maintain the vise on Phnom Pehn by appropriating a supplemental fund for the airlift, we may see the most ironic turn of events in this war: Ford may get a continued airlift he doesn't really want...
...because mutual savings banks in New York, as in ten other states, are not allowed to offer checking accounts. Still, seven New York savings banks are now advertising "payment orders" in a new effort to woo customers away from commercial banks. One of the lures: it is possible to vise a payment-order account in such a way as to earn interest on funds that are eventually needed to pay bills...
...current staging at Manhat tan's Joseph E. Levine-Circle in the Square Theater, Iceman holds the play goer in the vise of O'Neill's passions and obsessions, but -the drama's organic life is stunted. Except for Hickey, Iceman 's characters tend to be puppets who are twitched to demonstrate the central the sis. James Earl Jones' Hickey is over wrought, a manic-morose evangelist given to fits of hysterical joviality. In a production not conspicuously endowed with strength or cohesiveness, Jones' prizefighter style makes him disconcert ingly and divisively strong...
...raked stage is dominated by a pair of 20-foot-high steel panels, each with a portal that can be open or shut. The insides of the panels are serrated, so they can close together as tightly as the vise of Destiny grips its victims. Sets of steel stairs roll in and out. When the panels are separated, we see in back a drop with a huge translucent circular screen, on which mobile projections are thrown from the rear...