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...another sweltering afternoon??in the most dangerous place in Iraq, and the men of Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines, are looking to pick a fight. First Lieut. Grier Jones splits his 30-odd-man platoon into two squads and sets them loose on the streets of Ramadi. They run block to block, covering one another as they sprint across intersections. Insurgents bob their heads out of homes to catch a glimpse of the Marines--"turkey peeking," as the troops call it--a sign that they are preparing to attack."We come out here every day, and we get shot...
...write out a letter of resignation in longhand on official stationery. He asked his wife Grace to drive in from their home to lunch with him, and he read her the letter. After making a few changes, he carefully copied it over in his tight, slanting script. That afternoon???as the C-130s were being readied and the Nimitz was steaming into position?Vance delivered the message to Carter in an eight-minute private session in the White House Map Room...
...Inauguration morning, when the Nixons and Johnsons had arranged to meet at the White House for an informal chat before riding together to the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue for the formal change of command. The trip back?the triumphal parade that was to take the rest of the afternoon???was a box-office success. All 38,000 seats along the line of march were sold in advance...
DEATH in THE AFTERNOON???Ernest Hemingway?Scribner...
...Afternoon???Susan Ertz ($2). A cool study in mature emotions?the remarriage problem...