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...unsuspected days before the first shot was fired. Up to the triangle-shaped fort 20 miles from the Cambodian border crept sappers from two recently infiltrated North Vietnamese regiments. Working in darkness just 40 yards from the camp's wire-strung perimeter (see aerial photo), the cautious bo doi (infantrymen) cut trenches and L-shaped firing pits, hauled the dirt away in baskets and camouflaged their labors with brush. Though the camp's 400 montagnard defenders were patrolling assiduously up to ten miles away, no one thought to poke around his own front yard. Into each Communist...
...American Football League has Pete Gogolak of Cornell, whose soccer-style kicking helped carry the Buffalo Bills to the league championship last season, flanker Bo Roberson, also of Cornell and the Bills, Dartmouth's Don McKinnon, a linebacker for the Boston Patriots, and Cosmo Iacavazzi, who is bouncing on and off the New York Jets' roster after smashing a bookful of rushing records for Princeton...
...Bards began in the 18th century, and before long, these professional singers had assembled enormous anthologies of sijo. In one of them occurs a macabre little lyric by Yi Jong-bo that reads like one of Rimbaud's more lurid Illuminations...
Since the U.S. bombing raids began last February, Hanoi's working routine has been rudely disrupted. Citizens now rise at 5 a.m., perform calisthenics in the streets under the watchful eye of the local can bo, then go off to work until 9:30 a.m. Since Ho & Co. fear midday air raids, the workers do not get back to the job until 3 p.m., then stay on until 9:30 p.m. On Sundays "volunteers" wheel out of town to work on the dikes of the Red River delta. "Some go because they feel legitimately patriotic," explains a visitor. "Others...
...Madame Coco La Fontaine, proprietress of an overstuffed boîte de nuit, Ethel Merman sports pink, green and violet wigs, and shouts insults at anyone who stops by to untangle the plot. Merman's bad temper is understandable, since she has to oversee a series of stale farcical escapades, the last of which has Garner going to the guillotine accused of Van Dyke's murder...