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Subsequent adventures have taken Greenway from hunts near 19,565-ft.-high Kilimanjaro to 520-ft.-high Con Thien, which, as our cover story notes means roughly "place of angels," but is "more akin to hell." How does he like his new assignment that calls for so much time on the muddy, bloody "roof" of South Viet...
...Vietnamese, the name means approximately "place of angels." To the 1,200 U.S. Marines guarding it and to Americans watching their ordeal, Con Thien has come to mean something more akin to hell. Since Sept. 1, the outpost, less than two miles from the southern edge of the six-mile-wide Demilitarized Zone that separates the two Viet Nams, has been under relentless bombardment from Communist guns. In one barrage last week, the Communists sent 903 artillery, mortar, rocket and recoilless-rifle shells whistling into the perimeter around Con Thien's three barren, red clay hills-probably the greatest...
...hilltops as they fire into the DMZ and into North Viet Nam beyond to interdict the Communist buildup and southward movement; day and night the dread cry of "Incoming!" rings through the camps as the Communists return the shells. It is a deadly duel of giant cannon more akin to World War I or Korea than to the rest of the war in Viet Nam, and it has long since potholed the rolling scrub hills and emerald paddies for miles around...
...game's archaic scoring system may be replaced with something akin to James Van Alen's VASSS (for Van Alen Simplified Scoring System), in which zero is zero, a point is a point, one game of 31 points decides a match, and both spectators and players are spared such dreary marathons as one of the doubles contests at last month's Newport Hall of Fame Invitational. The match lasted 6 hrs. 10 min., and the final score was 3-6, 49-41, 22-20. With that ever-present possibility, it is no wonder that the West Side...
There is little warmth, however, to relieve the glare of what God hath wrought on the great North American continent and what Ansel Adams hath done to drive it all home. The cumulative effect of the Fine Arts exhibit is somewhat akin to that of being dangled over a chasm for several hours. You admire it, but it scares hell...