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...dawn, they tighten the noose, moving into the village and taking watchful control. They do nothing else unless, as often happens, a Viet Cong among the villagers foolishly tries to escape the net. Next, in flutters a giant Chinook helicopter carrying a contingent of Vietnamese National Police armed with burp guns and long metal rods. The policemen question and search the villagers, poke the ground with their rods in search of holes hiding Viet Cong or arms. They usually flush out both, and load them into the Chinook. With that, the police and the Cavalrymen withdraw. Usually within two hours...
There must have been a gap of at least ten seconds between Pediatrician Dr. Benjamin M. Specie's announcement of his possible presidential candidacy and the beginning of the jokes-like how he would turn the Pentagon into the Triangle and replace the rifle with the burp gun. Increasingly active as a speaker and marcher against U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, and co-chairman of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, the Great Pacifier told a press conference in Washington that SANE in 1968 "will energetically support" an antiwar candidate, even if he has to run himself...
...traveled 50 miles into the bush country to see the Royal Australian Army's Canungra jungle training center, watching Aussie "diggers" slated for Viet Nam thread an obstacle course known as "the horror stretch." On the firing range, a lieutenant offered him a burp gun, saying "Here, mate, have a go at it." "No, thank you," replied the premier, "I am in civilian clothes, so I don't shoot." Stopping at a small farming community, he gave a little speech on the schoolhouse steps, then sought out the village's old man resting near...
...more than half of them learn to speak again by swallowing huge gulps of air. When they bring it up, it makes the throat muscles vibrate at a fixed, almost toneless pitch, in what Dr. William W. Montgomery of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary calls "an educated burp." Every time Surgeon Montgomery has done a laryngectomy, he has longed for a way to give the patient something better than this burping speech. He saw the results of brave attempts in Japan and by Los Angeles' Dr. Alden Miller. But whenever these patients swallowed anything, they had to press...
...through the silver tube, but when he exhales, the air will go past the closed tube and activate the valve at the top of the windpipe. This will serve as a substitute voice box, and Dr. Montgomery is confident that Lopata's speech will be superior to a "burp...