No X in Nixon revisited.

No X in Nixon revisited. NO X IN NIXON has been cited as the longest palindrome that readsthe same upside down. Okay, let's see what it looks like upsidedown. NOXIN NIX ON. Doesn't look the same to me. I made up apalindrome that really does read the same upside-down. It appeared inAlphabet Avenue. I have recently extended this palindrome by adding theSOS in the middle. Let's see what it looks like this time.Here's the set-up ending with the palindrome: In South Vietnam, many civilians feared the troops of Ho Chi Minh,the leader of the North. An elite group of South Vietnam spies knownonly by the Greek letter "XI" infiltrated Minh's army andfound out about impending military activities. Whenever the name oftheir organization, XI, appeared anywhere, it served as a warning tomean "Save Our South." One night someone put up posters allover one of the villages. The poster depicted a smiling Minh saying in acartoon balloon "We Will Not Hurt Your City." The anti-Minhspies knew that the North was trying to lull the city into a false senseof security preceding an attack scheduled for the following day. To warnthe townspeople to prepare for battle, six members of the anti-Minhgroup arrived just before dawn, and each member stamped a warning signon Minh's face. When morning came, the townspeople saw the defacedposters and cried out: OH NO SIX SOS XIS ON HO DAVID MORICE Iowa City, Iowa