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...reach one of the forts. Using homemade bamboo ladders that they had carried with them, they scaled the walls and captured the fort. Their victory was short-lived. While 250 South Vietnamese defenders fought back, U.S. advisers called in artillery strikes from two miles away, brought in planes to bombard the V.C. The Communists left behind 69 bodies...
During one amphibious operation off Nam Quan, Arnheiter-whose orders were to stay well at sea and cut off any Viet Cong "ex-filtration" by boat-commanded his officers to file false position reports and then took the Vance in close some 20 times to bombard the shore. On another occasion, Arnheiter brought the Vance within 250 yds. of the beach to blast a Buddhist pagoda that he suspected of being a Communist automatic-weapons position-and, according to the junior officers, avoided grounding only because Exec Hardy "relieved the skipper at the conn" and wheeled the ship to safety...
...extensive task force, drawing on Harvard faculty and students, is now preparing a series of position papers for White. The strategy for the rest of the campaign will be to bombard the electorate with these position almost daily, and thus draw attention away from Mrs. Hicks' unremitting racism which brings out the worst in Boston...
...often the case in science, researchers at the University of California's Lawrence Radiation Laboratory were attempting to synthesize an entirely different isotope when mendelevium 258 was created. A team led by Nuclear Chemist E. Kenneth Hulet was using the laboratory's heavy ion linear accelerator to bombard a tiny amount of einsteinium (a transuranium element discovered in 1952) with alpha particles which consist of two protons and two neutrons. "We expected the alpha particles to join with the heavier isotope of einsteinium," says Hulet, "and then decay by a process called 'electron capture' to fermium...
FALSTAFF. Orson Welles may be the first actor in the history of the theater to appear too fat to play Shakespeare's "huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak bag of guts." In his compilation of five of the Bard's plays, some Wellesian genius flickers but does not burn brightly enough to illuminate the long dull stretches...