Word: winter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...added, "between what might happen at Christmas and the idea of a general pause." The Administration maintains that the bombing is essential since it ties down 100,000 North Vietnamese in repair work and disrupts the flow of men and matériel. By contrast, the Communists used last winter's respite to repair facilities, strengthen antiaircraft defenses, and beef up their forces south of the 17th parallel...
Reed withdrew from Harvard last winter and moved to Voluntown, Conn., headquarters of the New England CNVA. His failure to report for a physical exam and then for induction last spring led to his arrest and jury trial...
...hundreds of tons of supplies from 175-mm. artillery shells to plastic bottles of mosquito repellent. DePuy soon concluded that Attleboro had caught the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese massing for an attack on the Special Forces camp of Suoi Da, perhaps as the opening of a major winter offensive. True or not, the Reds kept fighting as though it were; the biggest battle was still to come...
WAITING FOR WINTER by John O'Hara. 466 pages. Random House...
...Hara has a playwright inside him clamoring to get out, and this is reflected in his stories, which are often told almost entirely in dialogue. As an old pro, O'Hara is a methodical worker, using the summer months for short stories and execrable golf, and the fall, winter and spring for novels, hence the title Waiting for Winter. The stories in this new collection, ranging from a brief seven-page look at an ugly marriage to the novella-length Natica Jackson, add up to a fine job of summer's work...