Word: 45s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They call themselves "Nam's Angels,"* but aside from one swastika that appeared on a crash helmet (it was ordered rubbed off), there is little of the Hell's Angel type in the four young soldiers. Their helmets are camouflaged, they carry .45s, and instead of leather gear, they wear flak jackets and fatigues. "Back in the world," as they refer to the U.S., they all grew up around engines, and Viet Nam has never seemed so like home...
Baseball is a tough game for a man to break into. It's rougher still for a team. The New York Mets tried it in 1962-and produced a tenth-place comedy act. That same year the Houston Astros pranced onto the field (as the Colt .45s), and it looked like the same burlesque. They wound up eighth, ninth, ninth and ninth, just above the Amazin' Mets. But last week, with the season almost three months old, the Astros were the surprise of the National League, orbiting way up there in fourth place. Astronomical...
Tunnel Rats." Since January, the team has been crawling through miles of mazes in the no man's land north of Saigon, braving booby traps and 100° temperatures. The Rats are an oddly equipped lot: they carry .22-cal. pistols (since .45s would shatter their eardrums at close quarters), wear leather gloves and kneepads, and are connected to the surface by half a mile of wire that runs to a battery-powered headset. Taped to their ankles are smoke grenades, for use when the Tunnel Rats are ready to emerge, and want to avoid a bullet from...
Well, they can't in the Astrodome either - in daytime, anyway. Last week its resident tenants, the Houston Astros (formerly the Colt .45s), played their first day game under the steel and plastic dome, against their own Oklahoma City farm hands. As a precautionary measure, outfielders wore batting helmets in the field. They needed them. Unable to follow the flight of the ball against the jigsaw pattern of the roof, the players staggered about like asphyxiated cockroaches as fly ball after fly ball dropped at their feet. When they quit after seven innings, the Astros were ahead...
...replica of London's Garrison-hot red walls, Wellingtonian sconces, military drums for tables, and real plastic flowers sprouting from the ceiling. Here the young and not so young swingers may Frug, Watutsi, Swim-or just twitch-while an intellectual-looking French disque jockesse spins the 45s...