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...Colonel Henry Miller, chief of Army heavy maintenance in Saigon. Many Marines in the battle above Khe Sanh had been issued their M-16s only a few days before the fight, and were probably unfamiliar with the weapon's demands: constant lubrication, thorough wire-brush reaming of the barrel to prevent leading, "fire discipline" that limits bursts to two or three rounds at a crack...
...secret room, hollowed out of the hillside behind the garage of a $45,000 home in a Westchester County suburb, north of New York City. The items confiscated there included half a pail of capsules marked "SKF" (for Smith Kline & French, the makers of Dexedrine), a small barrel of counterfeit Seconals, paper bags containing yellow tablets imprinted "Ciba," bags of waterlogged, unidentified tablets, and a 110-lb. drum marked "Made in Italy" and containing a dubious white powder. Added together these items gave the FDA an unusually persuasive collection of evidence...
...Downs Jr. $114 in repair bills, but the bus company's insurer offered him only half that amount-take it or leave it. He will take it. "It would cost more than $57 to fight the suit," says Downs. "They've got me over a barrel...
...with sisters Maxine, then 14, and Patti, 12, to play the Midwest vaudeville circuit, finally rocketed to fame in 1937 with Bei Mir Bist du Schoen, went on to blend adhesive harmony and speedy tempo into such hits as Chattanooga Choo Choo, Rum and Coca Cola, Beer Barrel Polka and Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree, altogether selling 60 million copies of almost 900 recordings; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...still in high school, Mahan was thrown by a bull, which then stepped on his jaw and broke it in five places. He has since had a face bone shattered, a rib broken and three vertebrae cracked. Last week in Phoenix, a bull threw him alongside a metal barrel in which a rodeo clown was hiding, then turned, charged, missed Mahan by a hair, but caught the barrel and butted its 300-lb. weight 6 ft. into the air. The clown was lucky to escape with only minor injuries. It was a close call for all concerned. "I consider myself...