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...talians." Some Eye-talians might have been ruffled, but a number of Georgians and other Southerners did not even blink. Why should they, in a region where a porch is a "pye-azzuh" and the capital of Austria-as well as a Georgia town by the same name-is "Vy-anna"? Vienna, Ga., incidentally, is the home town of Carter's press secretary, Jody Powell (see THE PRESS). Campaign Director Hamilton Jordan-or, as it is pronounced down home, "Jer-dan"-is from Albany, which, unlike New York's capital, is accented on the second syllable...
That would be a dazzling rise for a man who entered politics a scant six years ago as a "gofer" (gofer coffee, gofer a newspaper, gofer the car). Raised on a farm in Vienna (pronounced Vy-anna), Ga., 35 miles east of Plains, Joseph Lester Powell Jr. entered the Air Force Academy in 1961-and was expelled three years later for cheating on a history exam...
...Soyuz, Soyuz, zdes Apollon. Vy v nashem pole zreniya, i my tormozim...
Conglomerate. Defense Minister Nguyen Van Vy may also lose his job because he founded the army's corporate empire in 1968, and has been running it ever since. Vy's vehicle was the Servicemen's Mutual Aid and Savings Fund (SMASF), which was financed by dunning every soldier 25? a month. Initially, Vy's goal was to encourage savings so that the soldiers would have some money to spend when mustered out. In theory, each army veteran was to collect all the SMASF money deducted from his paychecks, plus interest; similar payments were...
Last summer Vy began buying or starting private enterprises for the army. He wound up with five: the Bank of Industry and Commerce (BIC); Vicco, a builder of bridges and roads; Vi-navatco, a transportation firm; Icico, an insurer; and Foproco, a food processing and canning company. Vy detached from war duties 155 army officers who had business experience to operate these enterprises...