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...extramarital affair, frequently the office romance. The office romance thrives on contiguity, opportunity, and the fact that love feeds on shared experience. The man looks across the desk at this sweet young thing, and she stirs memories of playful erotic tenderness before he pulled on the heavy, encumbering armor of duty and responsibility. Whatever the wife is doing on her rounds, the husband and his secretary are doing something in common that draws them intensively closer, whether it is planning an ad layout or drafting a new skyscraper. Assuming the girl is about 20 years younger than...
...crisis, the Allies, running an average of 15 battalion-size-or-larger operations each week, have been methodically hunting down the enemy. From north of Hue to south of Saigon, from the Cambodian border in the Central Highlands to Binh Dinh on the South China Sea, spearheaded by the armor and artillery and airpower of the U.S., the Allies have been hitting the Viet Cong and their North Vietnamese reinforcements where they live (see map), seizing enemy stockpiles of rice and salt and weapons. Even in the enemy redoubts where ground forces have not yet penetrated, the threat...
Snow on the Volcano. Nothing in Giap's experience or theoretical manual of strategy had prepared him for the quality or magnitude of the U.S. intervention. Though Vo, his family name, means "force," and Giap, his given name, means "armor," the architect of North Viet Nam's army was born near the city of Vinh, the son of a bourgeois landowning family that had fallen into penury. By the time he was 14, he was a member of a clandestine, anti-French sect; four years later the French clapped him in jail for political agitation. It proved...
...cumbersome complex of knuckles and joints so as to free the rotor from its housing. This month Hughes Tool will begin delivering its turbine-powered Army OH-6A light observation helicopter, which does away with the heavy knuckles. Even more sophisticated models are on the way. Bell's armor-plated AH-1G next year will give the Army its first helicopter designed as an aerial artillery platform. Hughes, aiming at a future 110-passenger intercity transport, built its experimental XV-9A hot-cycle model, which is powered by hot gases shooting out of rotor-tip vents. Beyond that come...
...Shadow. There were boondoggles and bad work. A WPA supervisor named George K. Gombarts was put in charge of remodeling a condemned building into a free art school. After a couple of months, his office was finished, including stained-glass windows and a tapestry of a knight in shining armor. The knight was George K. Gombarts...