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...take long for the patrol to discover that it had landed smack in the midst of a Viet Cong concentration. As skilled as Victor Charlie in the deadly blindman's buff of jungle warfare, Team Two soon realized that the enemy was following its every move. Each time Staff Sergeant Glide Brown Jr. halted his men, they could hear a couple of footfalls close behind-and then a bristling silence. As the jungle dusk deepened into blackness, Brown set up a defense perimeter and listened more closely. Above the keening of insects, geckos and night birds, he heard...
...spectators can now see, but the actors are meant to be in sightless confusion, playing blindman's buff. They begin a convulsively amusing, slow-motion night dance of straight-arming the air, pawing and fumbling for objects and people, mistaking identities, and trading unintended indiscretions under the misleading cover of darkness...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY (Golden). A useful little platter to have around the house before cutting the cake. Its 15 favorite games from Blindman's Buff to Simon Says will keep the children busy and mother blissful for a tuneful 20 minutes each side...
...Blindman's Buff. At every level, the U.S. is locked in a complex, unpredictable-and brutal-struggle. Last month three U.S. marines and eight South Vietnamese captured by the Viet Cong on a patrol 80 miles southwest of Danang were savagely executed. One American was shot six times in the face at close range. Another's face was hacked beyond recognition with a machete...
...many ways, it is the same kind of fighting-with some local refinements-that G.I.s faced in the island-hopping battles of World War II. It is an interminable blindman's buff that has squads and platoons snaking stealthily along tangled jungle paths, ever fearful of snipers' bullets, ever watchful for the trip wire that might set off a lethal "Bouncing Betty" mine or drive poison-tipped stakes into a man's chest. The big set-piece battles-Chu Lai and Plei Me, Chu Pong and la Drang-were the exceptions, and even they