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Though Air Force and Navy planes pound the enemy daily, and the 40,000-man Marine Corps contingent has fought with distinction, the war in South Viet Nam is fundamentally a battle for terrain, a foot-slogging soldier's war. To replace and augment the men in combat, the draft call-mostly for the Army-has reached 40,200 a month,* twelve times the level of August 1964. To train the ever-swelling flood of recruits, the Army is expanding half a dozen U.S. bases. To supply its fighting men, the Pentagon has stepped up its shopping for almost...
...need subsidies the least get the most. The Department of Agriculture estimates that one-third of its $3 billion-a-year expenditures for farm price supports and related programs goes to fewer than 100,000 larger farms. One suggested remedy would be to lower price supports for commodities and augment them with cash payments that would decrease in proportion to the volume of the commodity produced by any one farmer...
Edwards and Carter quickly got into a fuss over when Edwards should give up the 18-room, three-story presidential mansion-a key fringe benefit to augment the post's $16,000 salary. One morning, Edwards was reading on his patio when the caretaker discovered that the water had been shut off-on Carter's orders, it developed. Electricity and heat also faded. Edwards' 17-year-old daughter had to dress at a neighbor's house for her high school graduation. Edwards called the cutoff "an outrage." Carter called Edwards "rude and obstinate." Furious, students hanged...
...Mandolin Festival in Verviers, Belgium (July 3). Florence's Maggio Musicale (through June 20) will repeat its popular production of Director-Set Designer Franco Zef-ferelli's Euridice, while Composer Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds at Spoleto, Italy (June 24-July 18), will augment its opera and concert season with Jerome Robbins' new production of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat and five performances of the New York City Ballet...
...calibre downhill trail has also been completed, with a maximum gradient of 80 degrees. A new mid-mountain restaurant has also been added this year. Madonna Mountain (formerly Smuggler's Notch) near Stowe has replaced two with a new 5700-foot Hall double chair to augment last year's 6600 foot chair. A new glant sialoza trail has been out which drops 3163 foot in 2.5 miles. The new developments provide easy sucess to the Spruce Peak area at Stowe...