Word: zone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worst of these is the United States Post Office Department. A few years ago they instituted zone numbers and now the second step in their program is revealed in the form of the heinous ZIP Code. In order to head off the loosely organized foes of numerification, the post office is carrying on a large-scale public relations program, including the biggest mass mailing in history. They have even gone so far as to devise a little ZIP Code anthem, arranged for the music of "Zip-a-Dee-Do-Dah," a sacred tune which once signified the beauty of life...
Like many of Germany's most powerful younger men, Beitz began his postwar climb by working for the Western Allies. Son of a small-time bank clerk, Beitz in 1946 sold the British occupiers on hiring him as chief insurance supervisor in their zone-though he knew nothing about insurance-and went from there to the presidency of a small insurance company that he built into Germany's third biggest...
...trenches now well ensconced in olive groves, Jew and Arab stare bitterly at one another, firing on anything that moves. Would-be infiltrators cause few diplomatic headaches, a U.N. media tor wryly explains, because "we simply repatriate the corpses." Bisecting the city of Jerusalem is a grim buffer zone of tangled barbed wire and antitank dragon's feet, flanked by concrete pill boxes and rusting "DANGER" signs...
...clean out a Communist-infested jungle hideout 175 miles northeast of Saigon. The region was a tangled, menacing battleground, whose name, like Tennyson's Balaclava, derives from its bloody history in South Viet Nam's ugly guerrilla war. As each flight dipped into the tiny landing zone, an escort of twelve rocket-carrying UH 1-B ("Huey") choppers sprayed the scrubby underbrush with rockets and machine-gun fire. Not a single hostile shot was returned as the troops hit the ground and fanned into the jungle...
Unlike fixed-wing fighter bombers, which fly too high and too fast to pick out specific targets and sometimes drop napalm on innocent civilians, the slow-cruising Hueys can spot ground fire in the landing zone and move in to neutralize it with discriminating fire that spares noncombatants. "If we kill one woman or a child on a mission and 90 Viet Cong," says one Huey pilot, "then that mission is a failure...