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...sales of $468 million (up 39% from 1965) and record net income of $13.7 million (up 129%). With Wilson in the family, Ling-Temco-Vought will be able to diversify from its Government contracts-which include the A-7A Corsair, a vertical-takeoff-and-landing plane, and the Lance battlefield missile...
...VINE (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). Although it was filmed mainly in the Holy Land, this life of Christ achieves a new dimension as it ranges from a shell-wracked battlefield in Viet Nam to a New York City ghetto and a Paris fashion salon...
...with "safe" jobs. We think some will be technicians, some foot soldiers. In any case, no draftees, whether technicians or infantrymen, will be safe. For people's war, revolutionary guerrilla war, is not like trench warfare. There is no defined front. The whole country, farmland and city, is the battlefield. All the local people are possible enemy fighters. Since there is no defined front, there is no safe rear. This is true for the U.S. army (all of its personnel) in Vietnam. It would certainly be true in China...
Citing St. Augustine's axiom, "War's aim is glorious peace," he noted that in Viet Nam the U.S. is seeking to create "an atmosphere in which resolution of our difficulties can be found off the battlefield." And, before a conservative audience, he urged the Republican Party to become "broader and more creative." He ventured that the old shibboleths of "big government" and the Communist conspiracy have outworn their meaning. Added Brooke: "There is an obligation to propose rather than primarily to oppose...
...every war, disease far outranks combat wounds as a cause of casualties. The situation is no different in Viet Nam, where three out of every four hospitalized U.S. soldiers are sick rather than injured. Despite the fact that American battlefield medicine is the best in history, the illness rate remains high because an Iowa-born sergeant or a Georgia-born lieutenant has developed no immunity to the indigenous diseases of Viet Nam.* Worse still, there are occasional cases of disease that a U.S. trained Army doctor has never seen before...