Word: well-to-do
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...palace upheavals and military setbacks of the mid-1960s, found that once again the press corps was "no longer trying to report a country neatly organized into definable structures, parties and war zones, but only a suffocating mass of humanity, frightened and on the run-officers, civil servants and well-to-do alike." Added McWhirter: "By degrees, we become involved in the heart of what is happening. Vietnamese stop us while taking notes and ask us to explain the U.S. Congress, when the evacuation is coming, and most poignantly, how they can get onto the passenger list." Following the path...
...addition Indian youth and young native Alaskans are among the working youth of this country, the millions of men and women who are destined to give a half-country of their lives in labor to this nation, and who deserve more than they are now getting. Also the well-to-do and privileged youth of this country, so many of whom have their own troubles and fears and confusions. Whereas millions their age have virtually nothing they have everything-it seems, except a sense of who they really are and what they believe in. There are many young people...
...living in the U.S. and is now married to an American. About five days before the flight, the girl said, the colonel's brood was placed in a Catholic orphanage in Saigon. Good connections and an ample store of cash served other Vietnamese well too. At least two well-to-do Saigon families managed to put their children upon U.S.-bound planes as "orphans"-and to accompany them on the trip as "escorts...
...sudden everything is changing," remarked one well-to-do Vietnamese company manager. "The people are afraid of the V.C., they fear the soldiers at loose like this, and they hate the government, which has only tried to profit out of the people. It's going to happen here, just like Danang...
...every provincial capital there was a sort of lemming effect: first the diplomats and the well-to-do left, then the civil servants, the Americans, and finally officers, enlisted men and even policemen-and in no time the stampede was on. "Suddenly all the people were cornered like rabbits," said Don Sewell, an Australian who administered a hospital in Qui Nhon. "They didn't know which way to run next. The whole city was buzzing. I don't know where people were going, but they were going from one end of the town to the other...