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...They were warned to expect terrorist attacks, told never to travel at night for fear of ambush, and informed about the standoffish peasants' social and religious taboos. The most arduous aspect of the course was learning the language from three Vietnamese instructors (heo is pig, bap is corn, ga is chicken, and farmer is a tongue-twisting nguoi lam ruong). Kiddingly, the agents asked their Vietnamese teachers how to say "I surrender"-and were haughtily ignored by the tough former army men. After 450 hours of study, the volunteers feel they have barely grasped the hang of basic Vietnamese...
...unspoiled countryside and other low-priced attractions, including the first "bunny" clubs in Communist Europe. Yugoslavia is prospering economical ly, thanks largely to Tito's imaginative agricultural and industrial reforms. Yugoslavia claims an extraordinary 1966 economic growth rate of 10%, helped out by a bumper harvest of wheat, corn and sugar beets, plus a surging production of ships, chemicals and petroleum derivatives. A boom has its price, of course: many Yugoslav cities are for the first time experiencing the agonies of rush-hour traffic jams, packed restaurants and overcrowded shops (workers recently shifted from a sixto a five...
...gaze at his menagerie of wild deer, turkeys, antelope and buffalo. In his paneled office, Lady Bird put up a 6-ft.-high balsam tree, speckled with colored lights and topped with a golden-haired angel in a blue brocade dress. The menu for Christmas dinner called for turkey, corn-bread dressing, string beans with almonds, sweet potatoes with marshmallow topping, rolls, cranberry salad, ambrosia and angel-food cake. The family celebrated Lady Bird's 54th birthday on Dec. 22. And even though Lyndon Johnson was putting in non-recuperative hours-conferring with Cabinet officers, working on his State...
...have long suspected, they have learned that there is much more to the obscure star than meets the eye. In an article in Nature, Astrophysicist Frank Low, 33, and Rice University Graduate Student Bruce Smith, 23, report that R Monocerotis (R designates the star; Monocerotis is Latin for uni corn) may well be a vigorous young star surrounded by the beginnings of a planetary system...
Disney always maintained that he made films not for children but for "honest adults." He was pleased when the enormously successful Disneyland was dubbed "Disney's Golden Cornfield," and said defiantly, "We're selling corn. And I like corn." Though most of his later "real-life" nature movies-The Living Desert, Beaver Valley, Water Birds-were imaginative documentary films, some critics protested that he spoiled them with gimmicks. And though historical pictures like Davey Crockett were also big hits, Disney was again criticized for sugar-coating his history...