Word: mudding
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...rather a palpable feeling of unease and fear that made it easy to persuade people not to see what they were looking at, not to hear what was said -in short, not to interfere. That atmosphere hung heavy at Dinh Binh, a tiny hamlet two miles down a mud footpath from the nearest village big enough to have a helicopter pad. At high noon, clusters of Vietnamese stood idly between the Catholic church and the school that housed the polling stations. Why was no one voting? "It's lunchtime," a national policeman explained. Reminded that the polls were...
...time, they could round up few able tappers. Those who remained took advantage of the situation, demanding, and getting, daily wage increases of from 41? to $1.33. They also received such unheard-of fringe benefits as salary advances, insurance, medical care, brick houses to live in instead of mud and straw huts, and profit sharing...
...they would leave New York. Beginning in 1975, the Giants will play their home games in a 75,000-seat football stadium that will be the core of a new $200 million sports complex in the Hackensack Meadowlands of northern New Jersey, an area currently composed of swampy, smelly mud flats dotted with dumps...
...little numb by the time he gets to Woodstock, which he sees as the natural outgrowth of one Beat movement. Having gone there to observe the rock festival (though his base of operations was a motel room), he reports that most of the people he saw were sullen, mud-caked and silently straining to hear the music. He dismisses the claim that Woodstock was the soul-expanding event portrayed in Michael Wadleigh's film documentary. Well and good. But amid the chaos of Max Yasgur's farm, Cook seems a little like Stendhal's young soldier...
...Federal agencies in Buffalo have been in chaos due to the delays. Leases on present space in other buildings are expiring, and one agency has attempted to move in despite the fact that the building is unfinished. The office workers must pick their way through mud and construction material to reach their still incomplete quarters. The role of the Mafia in the construction of the building-first in slowing down work, then in Cammillieri's speedup-is dismissed with studied ignorance by the contractor. Said Bateson Superintendent Paul Boyd: "Cammillieri kept Local 210 off my back. That alone...