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Also symptomatic of the public pressure on Viet Nam policy was the response of the parents of a Navy corpsman killed at Con Thien, near the bloodily contested Demilitarized Zone. Returning a letter of condolence sent them by President Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Laning of Muskegon, Mich., wrote: "We cannot in good conscience accept your letter of sympathy because we believe that you, as President of this great country, are in part responsible for the death of our son because of your refusal to permit our airmen to bomb strategic targets in North Viet Nam." The doubt was reinforced...
...approaching-"closer than you think," says Deere's Research and Development Chief Gordon Millar-when farmers will cultivate the soil with inaudible sound waves, work fields by computer-controlled programs, use television to monitor their remote-con trolled machines. Another phenomenon in the not too distant future is square tomatoes, which, after all, could be more easily packaged by machine-and fit better in sandwiches...
While it is causing, or at least encouraging, mischief on its borders, China continues to have trouble con trolling the course of the Cultural Revolution at home. Scarcely three weeks ago the party paper, Red Flag, proclaimed that President Liu Shao-chi, symbol of all the revolution is attacking, had at last been pulled down. But last week, amid reports of continuing clashes between groups of Red Guards vying for power, Radio Peking broadcast an appeal to the Peoples' Liberation Army to stand ready "to smash the counterattack" of the President and his followers. It is possible that...
...bank on the average American's ready belief that just about anything can be got wholesale (airline tickets cannot). Often the crooks pass the word around that they are part-time "travel consultants" authorized to sell "discount" tickets at 10% to 40% under regular fares. One Los Angeles con man had been making the rounds of airport bars and restaurants, offering to sacrifice his commission and sell tickets cheap so that he could "build up a large sales report." Another imaginative fellow liked to tell prospects he was in the all-expenses-paid type of "prize business"-and would...
...artillery fire, on the plain just below the DMZ. After digging in with their guns, they lie in wait for the Marines they know must eventually come to try to root them out; that is how the leathernecks ran into the bloody ambush just north of their base at Con Thien three weeks ago. By burying some of their guns in deep holes and caves and moving others from place to place, the North Vietnamese have kept the Marines under continual pressure. Last week they took some heavy pounding themselves. After two months in which they stayed away from...