Word: zone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weird was not the word for it. The South Vietnamese were holding a four-day bicycle race in one of the worst areas of the war: the battle-plagued Viet Cong-infested I Corps, from the Danang area to the Demilitarized Zone and back-a distance of 340 miles. It was, of all things, the opening event in a fun-and-games campaign by Premier Nguyen Cao Ky to rally the nation for the Sept. 11 election of a constituent assembly...
Some military sources feel that the U.S. will eventually need four divisions in the Delta, but the Pentagon scoffs at that figure, insists it will be much lower. The White House is also concerned by the amount of materiel now being stockpiled by the North Vietnamese in the demilitarized zone, and there is some speculation that U.S. troops may-have to go in and clean it out. Military commanders in Viet Nam are counting on a reserve call-up to make regular units available to them before the end of the year, and the Senate Appropriations Committee last week urged...
Modified Mia. The windup last week took place in Chicago's all-but-unplayable Soldier Field. The stage was plant ed on the 10-yd. line. The crowd of 14,220 people curled back and up into the end-zone stands like one big paying claque. Yet there was not a heckle of complaint about the low-fi sound, and plenty of uproarious laughter at even her simplest lines. A whistle whined from the neighboring railway yard. "My God!" she cried. "It's got poifect pitch...
...afternoon the 26-man platoon was airlifted to a tiny landing zone in the northern Ia Drang Valley near the Cambodian border, where a North Vietnamese regiment had been spotted. No sooner had four of the six choppers unloaded than an enemy ambush opened up from the surrounding jungle. Most of the men were cut down in their tracks. Three overran one enemy machine-gun nest, only to be chopped up by another. "Sergeant Shockey," the platoon's first sergeant called out, "the commander's dead, and I'm dying. Take over the platoon." Moments later, Sergeant...
...next task is research on tropical farming. Only 7.6% of the earth's land surface is cultivated today, because the rest is mostly too hot, cold, dry, wet or steep. Man's food supply is adequate only in the cool temperate zone, where grow most of the grains and soybeans that supply 60% of human energy. Crops in tropical rain forests are still grown as the Mayan Indians grew them 20 centuries ago: by burning off a tract, tilling it three years, then abandoning...