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...under any conditions and made less serviceable by an amorphous grey shrouding which pretends to be the set. Since DeSmit is credited with the scenery this contriction is a failing of conception, not coordination. If his draping was meant to invoke the severity of the Castle Adamant the bastion of femininity rampant which is stormed by player and playwright alike, he succeeded all too well. Somehow he should have devised a symbol which could be put aside when bufoonery called...
...electronic beacons that emitted continuous signals. Gauging the distance to their targets from these spots, the B-52s were able to bomb with uncanny accuracy; the big bombers, in fact, were able to walk their sticks of bombs to within 100 yds. of the perimeter of the Marine bastion. Flying the 5,200 mile round trip from their Guam base, they averaged 40 to 50 strikes each day. Hardly an hour passed without a bombload falling on the Communists. In ten weeks, a total of 103,500 tons of explosives were dumped on the five-mile-square battlefield around...
...butcher shops and laundries. Up to last month, more than 55,000 such businesses were still struggling along, accounting for 25% of the island's $250 million worth of goods sold annually. Last week, capping a month-long campaign, Castro's government announced that this last, lonely bastion of capitalism has been all but wiped out and the dispossessed businessmen put to work in fields and factories. Cried the official newspaper Granma: "The revolutionary offensive has dealt a decisive blow not only to parasites and domestic exploiters but also to Yankee imperialism, which counted on them...
...would have been unable to do so if it wished. The Saigon government responded to the crisis with more vigor than many thought possible. Though General Vo Nguyen Giap may never have intended to take Khe Sanh, he mounted a convincing siege at considerable expense in casualties, but that bastion is now liberated (see THE WORLD...
...facts about the war in Viet Nam," wrote Washington Post Reporter Richard Harwood, "the most notable being his claim-which he has now amended-that the South Vietnamese do not draft their young men to fight. He has incorrectly blamed the South Vietnamese government for developing the Khe Sanh bastion and has refused to acknowledge that South Vietnamese troops are fighting there...