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...Bamboo Bottoms. More than 50,000 fishing junks ply South Viet Nam's bulging, 1,000-mile coastline. The ragged reach from the southern coast to the 17th parallel is a navigator's nightmare of coves and sandbars, ready to crack the keel of any U.S. destroyer that ventures within the ten-fathom curve...
...barrel of his M-14 rifle-a one-in-a-million shot that burst his weapon and gashed his face. Yet another private stepped into the gaping steel jaws of a Viet Cong mantrap, and when a fourth marine rushed to his aid, the rescuer stumbled onto a sharpened bamboo stake-injuring his leatherneck pride more than his derri...
When digging of the Peking-Tientsin canal reached a point a few blocks away from our school we spent our work days with pick and shovel and bamboo carrying-poles. Later, we went to plant trees as part of a barricade against the fierce winds of North China, helped the people in a nearby village clear their fields of corn stalks, and finally spent a week in a commune, helping farmers dig a reservoir that would double as a fish-breeding pond...
...Pyle of Marina, Calif., spotted them and opened fire, killing one guerrilla. The noise roused the sleeping Americans, saved many from certain death had the Viet Cong slipped inside. As it was, the attack force riddled Pyle-the eighth American to die at Pleiku-tossed homemade grenades wrapped in bamboo or placed in beer cans at the barracks, wounded 25 Americans...
...slalom race, the competitor must ski down a narrow, sharply twisting course, closely defined by bamboo poles with colored flags, in as short a time as possible. An average course takes about a minute, and the fastest times are often within a few tenths of a second...