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...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:30 p.m.). William Holden and Clifton Webb in Satan Never Sleeps, the story of a priest caught behind the Bamboo Curtain. Color...
...First Mistake. For the U.S., one of the bloodiest battles of the war be gan as a platoon of paratroopers of the 173rd Airborne cautiously threaded their way through an apparently deserted V.C. camp only 30 miles north east of Saigon. It contained freshly dug fortifications, bamboo picnic tables, even a bathing hole. The trooper on "point," leading the way, spotted a pair of black pajamas drying on a tree, went over to pull them down. Precisely at the moment he touched them, four concealed Communist machine guns opened fire...
There were these ants, see? They were forced to live among the impenetrable bamboo of the jungle, and they longed for more space. So the ants decided to destroy the elephant and take over the broad trails he had smashed through the jungle. When the ants attacked in force, waving their tiny feelers, the elephant did not even see them. He thundered down the trail, trampling them underfoot. Then a new generation of ants came along, and they were much cleverer. Instead of attacking in the open, the ants lured the elephant deep into the thick bamboo, where he could...
...Even smarter. For, instead of being satisfied slowly to win over the Sarkhanese masses because the Americans are too lazy to learn their language and customs, the Communists are plotting a fraudulent invasion of the tiny kingdom so that the U.S. will rush its elephantine army into the dense bamboo. Naturally, the plot succeeds. The strained Lederer-Burdick point is: the U.S. elephant had better get the hell out before the Asian ants nibble it to pieces...
...hours before every sunrise, he tiptoes out of the house, climbs a rickety bamboo ladder to his rooftop observation platform, built from driftwood, and aims his homemade telescope toward the sky. He has come to consider the stars old, familiar friends. It was only a month ago that he focused on the constellation Hydra, near whose tail he had spotted his first comet. Suddenly he spotted an unfamiliar glow. "It shone," says Ikeya, "like a street lamp on a misty night." All his checks confirmed what he could hardly believe: he had found another comet...