Word: vo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during the vo-dee-o-do era of rumble seats and rolled-down hose that Rudy Vallee first took megaphone in hand, intoned "I'm just a vagabond lover," and invented the crooner. In the 35 years since, the crooner has endured through a succession of other musical crazes to become an American institution-if one that almost went under in the first great waves of rock 'n' roll. In the last few years the crooner has come back stronger-and sleeker-than ever...
Straight-Shooters. At the heart of Ho's complex political equation is Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap, 52, the stocky, slab-cheeked victor of Dien-bienphu and the man who runs Ho's considerable military establishment. Giap is tentatively pro-Moscow in his political orientation, but for a Communist general, he is basically apolitical. Unswervingly loyal to Ho, Giap has honed North Viet Nam's 250,000-man army into one of Asia's toughest military units. Though short on transportation and heavy artillery, Giap's men are tautly disciplined and almost overweeningly proud. Some...
...military chain begins with General Vo Nguyen Giap, victor of Dienbienphu, author of a celebrated book on guerrilla warfare (People's War, People's Army) and commander of the People's army of North Viet Nam. Giap's orders move through Hanoi's Ministry of Defense to six military regions in South Viet Nam corresponding to the political units. The beefed-up Viet Cong hard core is composed of 50 "Main Force" battalions, overseen by five regimental headquarters (compared to two in 1961). Political and military control are synchronized, giving Ho Chi Minh "assurance...
Pajama Party. Trained at Xuanmai, a base near Hanoi, the infiltrators are given a big sendoff party, sometimes attended by North Viet Nam's military boss (and victor of Dienbienphu), General Vo Nguyen Giap. They are trucked to the port of Vinh for staging, thence southwest to the border area, where they turn in all personal effects, including letters, which could identify them. The infiltrators exchange their equipment for guerrilla gear (such as rubber sandals, mosquito netting) and doff uniforms for the black-pajama garb of the Viet Cong...
...Asia's Communists last week celebrated the tenth anniversary of Dienbienphu, the savage battle that cost France her century-old Indo-Chinese empire. In Hanoi, loudspeakers blared a specially composed song, Liberation of Dienbienphu, and thousands of North Vietnamese massed to commemorate the feat of arms that General Vo Nguyen Giap, the Red victor of Dienbienphu, called "one of the greatest victories in the history of the armed struggle of oppressed peoples...