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...sailboat races go, it was an unmitigated disaster. By the time the two 12-meters rounded the second of six marks in the waters off Newport, Australia's Gretel II was already 5 min. 28 sec. ahead of France, skippered by Baron Marcel Bich. At the fourth mark, the margin was 24 min. 15 sec.-and then the baron had gotten lost in the fog. The race was finally called 43 minutes after Gretel II crossed the finish line. That made it four out of four for the Aussies, who now have the honor of mounting the 21st challenge...
...blasted out before helicopters could fly in with the search team. For three weeks, the remains were arranged on long shelves at a nearby school, and hundreds of Hue citizens came to identify their missing relatives. "They had no reason to kill these people," said Mrs. Le Thi Bich Phe, who lost her husband...
...weakening of the persistent European notion that U.S. antitrust and securities laws are somehow stacked against foreign operations (they are not). But the main drawing card is that the U.S. market is still the world's biggest and most profitable. Describing his own experience last June, Marcel Bich, whose Bic pen company bought out Waterman Pen Co. in 1959, could hardly contain himself. "The States, it is tough," he declared. "But when it works, it pays!" Bich has long since recouped his $10 million investment in Waterman, last year cleared $6.4 million...
...Most early poetry was filled with confidence and glorification," Bich said. "It was in the 16th century that we began lamenting the suffering of war. In recent years, the poetry of war has taken on great and tragic dimensions--the physical effect is under-played," he added...
Quoting from "Who am I?", a poem of the 1960's by Tru Vu, Bich said, "I am neither Communist or Nationalist--I am a Vietnamese...isn't that enough...