Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choppers rotated in and out. Today the First Team's garrison at An Khe is the largest concentration of fighting men and machinery in Southeast Asia since the French left Indo-China in 1954-and predictably its well-turfed 12,000-sq.-ft. helipad is known far and wide as "the golf course...
Building to Stay. If "the golf course" is a triumph of sweat and ingenuity, Cam Ranh Bay, abuilding 190 miles north of Saigon, is the manifesto of American engineering. Fifteen miles long, five miles wide, deep enough for any ocean vessel, rimmed by smooth, sun-blanched beaches, Cam Ranh Bay was probably the world's most underdeveloped great natural harbor. Until, that is, four months ago-when the 4,000 men of the 35th Engineer Group went to work...
...capers with the traditional mink. Bergdorf Goodman's Emeric Partos punches holes in white mink coats, fills them with dark mink. Kaplan, who jazzes up his regular ranch-mink coats with shirt-cuff sleeves and double-breasted brass buttons, features a striking horizontally worked white mink with three wide black-velvet bands, and a $5,000 reversible "gaudy mink" that is gold lamé on one side, natural ranch on the other. Philosophizes Kaplan, who came within a thesis of a Ph.D. in philosophy: "For years, buying a mink was such a serious thing. When you spend that much...
...Wide Gap. Controlling the two prestigious branches of Hong Kong and Singapore, the Communists have used their footholds to good advantage. Through these banks they funnel funds to such Communist organizations as the New China News Agency, bring back to Red China an estimated $132 million each year in hard currency remitted by overseas Chinese to mainland relatives. The bank's London office is now handling transactions amounting to $52 million in pounds sterling, which Japan is paying for recent purchases of Chinese corn, rice and soybeans. Communist branches also give generous loans to importers who handle Chinese goods...
Neither bank officially recognizes the other's existence, and there are no dealings between them. Despite the wide gap that separates them, however, both serve the same basic purpose for their governments: to act as foreign exchange centers and to provide loans and services for overseas Chinese. For the Communists, the bank is widely believed to serve yet another purpose: espionage. Malaysia last year ordered the Chinese Communists to close their Singapore branch because of subversive activities, and the branch was saved only when Singapore withdrew from the Malaysian Federation. Even so, Singapore has so far refused Peking...