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...Ninh. It proved an eerie enterprise. Moving down the corridors between the evenly spaced, parallel rows of trees, the troops were frequently brought up short by jungle birds whose screeches mimicked the whine of bullets. The almost purple earth underfoot teemed with a fierce breed of red ant whose bite meant torment. But the battalion soon did some tormenting of its own. Running into a company of Viet Cong, it killed 83 in a four-hour firefight that left the bullet-punctured rubber trees bleeding white...
...feel like an ant on a dart board," says a young U.S. Marine at Gio Linh, the American artillery base carved out of the top of a hill overlooking North Viet Nam (see color opposite). The camp's main gate bids a black-humor welcome to "the Alamo of Viet Nam." Like neighboring Con Thien to the west, Gio Linh is the merest outstretched fingertip of the U.S. presence in Viet Nam, an isolated and vulnerable outpost less than two miles from the Demilitarized Zone. It lies in a no man's land that has become the bitterest...
Chopped Liver. In Virginia Woolf, Sandy played a drunken child bride with stomach-turning realism and cannily turned the part into that of an anemic ant asserting itself against dragons. "Sandy," Co-Star Elizabeth Taylor says overgraciously, "made chopped chicken out of me-or chopped chicken liver, which is even worse." In Up the Down Staircase, she persuasively demonstrates the importance of being earnest amid the cynicism and bureaucracy of big-city schools. In her most affecting scene, she reaches unreachable kids by getting them to relate their time to the opening lines of Dickens' Tale of Two Cities...
...Lily? Woody Allen, as televiewers know, is an anonymous little giggle merchant who looks like a slight defect in the wallpaper pattern and makes funnies that are so far out they sink before the slow boats get there. One day, for instance, he appeared in public leading his pet ant on a leash. On other occasions he wondered evilly if Memorial Day poppies contain opium, tsked sympathetically about a resolutely modern painter who cut off his ear with an electric razor, revealed regretfully that he once owned a silver mine but it tarnished...
Miss Melissa Tillman, a teacher at the New School for Children which is ant integrated private school for the poor in Roxbury, remarked, "segregation is bad because the ghetto gives the Negroes a false sense of security and bad for the whites because they don't know what to do when they meet other people. They don't know that its not a white world...