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Something Besides Guns. The fast-moving 3rd Division covers a front at least 100 miles long, operating in a deep arc that curves east from a point near Orlu. Under the iron command of Colonel Benjamin Adekunle, it is far more aggressive, daring and successful than the other two federal divisions combined, having captured the other primary strongholds of Aba and Owerri in the past month. Both towns, as well as Umuahia, are in territory originally assigned to the other divisions...
...MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN is a play for those who are lost and lonely. W. B. Brydon, Salome Jens and Mitchell Ryan are a father, his daughter and her almost-lover who see their lives slip away in the course of one lunar arc. Ted Mann's direction transmits much of the tenderness and sadness of Eugene O'Neill's tribute to the isolated...
...Peninsula, the land shows countless scars-spots that look as if a giant rake had swept over them, long parallel lines of deep craters walking across the plains and over the mountains. The scars are the result of tons of explosives rained down in an "Arc Light" mission, a B-52 attack...
...over or around it. Hefner never actually told him in so many words that it would not do. "Next thing I knew," Grosvenor recalls, "they were buying $9,000 trees to put where my piece was supposed to go." Grosvenor is currently at work on a huge rainbow-like arc, commissioned by a Newport collector, that will curve out and downward from a 30-ft. cliff near the ocean. Even a $9,000 tree, he figures, would have trouble growing downward...
...ground assault, but were repelled by a quickly assembled crew of U.S. infantrymen, cooks, clerks and drivers. For their part, allied forces probed the countryside around the capital in sweeps and ambushes, but turned up mostly arms and ammunition. They have found several important caches in a wide arc around the city, including more than 60 rockets cleverly hidden and ready to be fired on the capital...